Authenticating Administrators

the appliance supports the following authentica tion methods: local database, RADIUS, and Active Directory. The appliance can use any combination of these authentication methods. It authenticates admins against its local database by default. Therefore, if you want to use local authentication only, you must configure the admin groups and add the local admin accounts, as described in /wiki/spaces/mgmadminguide/pages/911181006.
If you want to authenticate admins using RADIUS and Active Directory in addition to local authentication, then you must define those services on the appliance and define the admin authentication policy. For information, see /wiki/spaces/mgmadminguide/pages/911181019 /wiki/spaces/mgmadminguide/pages/911181019.

Note: If you are using remote authentication, you must always have at least one local admin in a local admin group to ensure connectivity to the appliance in case the remote servers become unreachable.