Cisco Systems 5.2.x Understand the Requirement to Authenticate Users

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UserGuide for Cisco Dig ital Media Manager 5.2.x

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Chapter6 Authentication and Federated Identity

Concepts

Understand the Requirement to Authenticate Users

Although Cisco DMS always authenticates users, we support three authentication methods.

•Embedded authentication is completely native to CiscoDMS. It d oes not depend on any

external servers.

•LDAP authentication causes Cisco DMS products to rely on one— and only one—Microsoft

Active Directory server and a Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). Thus, setup and

operation with this method are more complex than with embedded authentication.

•NEW IN CISCODMS 5.2.3—Federation mode —also known as single sign-on ( SSO) causes Cisco DMS

products to rely on a SAML 2.0-compliant IdP in combination with a Microsoft Active Directory

server and IIS. Thus, setup and operation with this method are more complex than with LDAP

authentication.

Note You must choose one of these methods. The method that you use determines which login screen your users will see.

Tip • After a user session times out, we prompt the affected user to log in twice.

• An unresponsive ActiveD irectory server can hang a login prompt for 20 minutes without any error message.