5 Performing Administration procedures

On the Navigation tree, the Administration tasks are available only to administrators. From here, the administrator can perform a number of important procedures which fall into the following categories:

•“Managing the Authentication Mechanism ” (page 41)

•“Performing Device Management tasks” (page 43)

•“Performing User Management tasks” (page 45)

•“Performing Group Management tasks” (page 49)

NOTE: The Administration tasks are not available to and cannot be seen by anyone with user-level permissions.

Managing the Authentication Mechanism

Replication Manager supports two types of authentication mechanisms:

•Local authentication—Replication Manager stores the authentication information.

•LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) authentication—Replication Manager uses the information stored in the LDAP to authenticate users.

Replication Manager allows administrators to switch between these two types of authentication at any time.

Changing from local to LDAP authentication

Changing from local to LDAP authentication allows users to use their LDAP credentials to log into the Replication Manager, rather than needing to use another User Id and Password to log in.

NOTE: Although users might have valid LDAP credentials, they cannot log in unless they have been added to Replication Manager by the administrator.

To change the authentication mechanism to LDAP:

1.From the Navigation tree, select Administration.

2.On the Current Authentication Mechanism tab, click Switch to LDAP. The Welcome screen of the wizard appears.

3.In the wizard, click Next to begin. The LDAP Server screen appears.

4.Enter the information for a valid LDAP server and click Next.

5.On the Login screen, enter the User Id and Password for the LDAP server that you added, then click Next.

6.On the User Migration screen, map the existing local users to their LDAP User Ids in the server being configured. To map a user, select the user in the table and enter the LDAP User Id. Then click Next.

NOTE: The default user hprmsadmin is authenticated using local authentication and is not included in this list.

7.On the Summary screen, review your information. You will not see the login credentials you provided.

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