Authentication of Grid Components

Authenticating all Grid components is an additional security option provided in GridServer. To authenticate all Grid components, you must set the following properties in the Manager:

• Authenticate Manager

• Manager Token

• Manager UserName

• Manager Password

To change the Authenticate Manager property, go to the Admin > System Admin > Security > Miscellaneous section and set the Authenticate Manager property to False.

Property	Description
Authenticate Manager	It is set to True by default. When logging in to the Primary Director, you must authenticate all Brokers or Primary Directors. If required, you can set this property on the Primary Director or on the Secondary Director.

Authenticate Manager property

To configure authentication, set the following properties during installation on the Installation page:

Property	Description
Manager Token	It is used to authenticate the Broker or the Secondary Director when logging in to the Primary Director. If it is not specified in the Primary Director, then this token is disabled.
Manager UserName	It is used to authenticate the Broker or the Secondary Director when logging in to the Primary Director. If it is not specified in the Primary Director, then the Manager Username is disabled.
Manager Password	It is used to authenticate Broker or Secondary Director when logging in to the Primary Director. If it is not specified in the Primary Director, then authentication is performed against Director Authentication mode.

Configuring Manager Authentication

Points to note

• If you are upgrading the server and using mixed grid deployment then on the Primary Director and Secondary Director, you must set the Authenticate Manager property to false.

• Grid component authentication fails on the Secondary Director when the Primary Director goes down and the user updates the tokens on the Secondary Director (different from the Primary Director token's values) without a restart.

• The Grid components fail to log in under the following circumstance:

  • If the Authenticate Manager property is true on the Primary Director and if the token, user name, and password are not configured on the components in sync with the Primary Director.

    In this scenario, the following error is displayed on the Grid Component UI:

    "Login is not available at this time, the Primary Director may be offline".

    In this case, if you do not want to use this feature, then

    1.

    On the Primary Director and the Secondary Director, set the Authenticate Manager property to false and restart the Primary and Secondary Director (if it exists).

    2.

    Restart the remaining Grid components.

 

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