Effective use of NetMRI requires an efficient and logical plan for user accounts. User account administration is a straightforward but fundamentally important part of a NetMRI rollout.
Two administrative concepts are involved for NetMRI users: the user accounts themselves, and each account's associated Role.
You can define and authenticate your admin users remotely, where all users and their accounts are authenticated and authorized for their roles and privileges through an external server such as RADIUS or LDAP. This chapter describes how to set up local authentication services in NetMRI. For remote configurations, see NetMRI User Authentication and Authorization. You can also define and authenticate all of your admin users locally, where all user accounts and their assigned roles and privileges are defined in the NetMRI system.
Note: For external authentication and authorization services, NetMRI receives the login requests from the user and forwards them to them to the Authentication/Authorization server, which performs the actual transaction. In this chapter, you configure authentication based only in the local appliance.
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When a new user is authenticated and authorized through one of the remote services described in NetMRI User Authentication and Authorization, NetMRI automatically creates the new account locally and learns the Roles and device group assignments from the remote service. If there happens to be an established local user account, and the account login is authenticated and authorized by an external service, NetMRI will update its local profile to reflect the Roles and device group assignments granted by the last external authorization.
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For more information on remote authentication and authorization of NetMRI users, see NetMRI User Authentication and Authorization and its subsections.
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