User Guide

OmniVista SafeGuard Manager Administration Guide
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Chapter 7: Managing the Server
3 Enter the user configurable fields as follows:
4 Click OK to apply the new settings. This ensures that further authentication is
performed by the RADIUS server.
Authentication Guidelines
■ The default “admin” account is always authenticated locally.
■ When a user logs in, and if RADIUS is the authentication type, then OmniVista
SafeGuard Manager checks to ensure that the user exists in the local database and
validates the password using RADIUS. This means that the administrator must
have already created a user account locally for the user to be authenticated
through RADIUS.
■ As part of creating or modifying a user appropriate roles are selected that are only
known to OmniVista SafeGuard Manager.
■ In the Add User/Modify User dialog box, the password and confirm password
fields are not displayed if the authentication type is selected as “RADIUS” when
setting the authentication for that particular user. The only exception to this rule is
when you modify the default “admin” account because the default admin account
is always authenticated locally.
Table 43 Edit User Authentication Attributes
Attribute Description
Authentication Server Select RADIUS to apply an external authentication
server.
IpAddress Enter the IP address on which the communication to
the RADIUS server can be established.
Port Enter the port number on which the communication to
the RADIUS server can be established.
Secret Key Enter the shared secret key.
NOTE: Whenever, the authentication method is changed from
“Local” to “RADIUS,” all logged in clients are logged out.