Viewing remote authentication properties

Use the Viewing Remote Authentication Properties on the SAN Volume Controller Console to view attributes for the remote authentication service which is used by remote users to access the cluster.

Attributes

The following attributes are displayed:
Remote Authentication
Indicates whether the selected cluster uses a remote service to authenticate users to the cluster. The following values are possible:
Enabled
Indicates that the cluster uses a remote service to authenticate users to the cluster.
Disabled
Indicates that the cluster does not use a remote service to authenticate users to the cluster. All SAN Volume Controller operations that are requested by locally authenticated users operate normally. However, all SAN Volume Controller operations that are requested by remotely authenticated users fail.
Web Address
Displays the Web address of the remote authentication service. SAN Volume Controller supports both an IPv4 or an IPv6 network addresses for the remote authentication service.
User Name
Displays the name of the HTTP basic authentication user name which is one of the authentication credentials that is required to obtain service from the remote authentication server. The system administrator of the remote authentication service configures and provides the HTTP basic authentication user name that is used by SAN Volume Controller.
Password
Indicates whether the current user has a HTTP basic authentication password configured. The HTTP basic authentication password is one of the authentication credentials that is required to obtain service from the remote authentication server. The system administrator of the remote authentication service configures and provides the HTTP basic authentication password that is used by SAN Volume Controller. The following values are possible:
Configured
Indicates that the current user has a password configured.
Indicates that no password has been configured for the current user.
SSL Certificate
Indicates whether the SSL certificate is configured. The maximum file length for the SSL certificate is 2048 bytes. The following values are possible:
Configured
Indicates that an SSL certificate is configured.
Indicates that an SSL certificate in not supplied.

Actions

The following actions are available:

Refresh Authentication Cache
Click this button to invalidate the passwords and token cache and should be used after changing the directory configuration of the remote authentication service to ensure that SAN Volume Controller does not use an out-of-date copy of the user's groups.
Close
Click this button to exit the panel.
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