Defining Application Authentication

Assign a security profile to the selected application. The security profile defines parameters for how the server authenticates the user during onboarding, and request-response interactions.

Prerequisites
Note: You must configure security profiles for application authentication before you can complete this step.
Task

Security profiles are comprised of one or more authentication providers. These authentication providers can be shared across multiple security profiles, and can be modified in Management Cockpit. You can stack multiple providers to take advantage of features in the order you chose; the Control Flag must be set for each enabled security provider in the stack.

  1. From Management Cockpit, select Applications > Authentication.
  2. Click Existing Profile.
    Note: You can also create a new profile.
  3. In Name, select a security profile name from the list. The name appears under Security Profile Properties, and one or more security providers appear under Authentication Providers.
  4. Under Security Profile Properties, enter values.
    Field Value
    Name A unique name for the application authentication profile.
    Check Impersonation (Optional) In token-based authentication, whether to allow authentication to succeed when the user name presented cannot be matched against any of the user names validated in the login modules. To prevent the user authentication from succeeding in this scenario, the property is enabled by default.
  5. Under Authentication Providers, you can select a security profile URL to view its settings. To change its settings, you must modify it through Settings > Security Profiles.