Hi, everyone, I'd like to get a little peer review before implementing something.
First, the business problem. There is a web application, including webservices of various sorts, on a farm of many servers, using web farm framework. We have a system external to the website but within our walls, let's call it
ExtSys, which requires a user name and a password, let's say those are
Alice and Secr3tPa$$, respectively. These values must be retrieved and used frequently by the asp.net code-behind. They are never presented to the user, not are they configurable by the user, but they do need to be changed
occasionally by trusted support personnel.
Secondly, let's establish a few points
I would like to store these values in the database, so that they can be changed one time, and all servers in the farm will pick them up
I would like to have a single web.config that can be replicated a ...
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