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Trusted management servers category, Kerberos authentication category (windows only), Kerberos authentication procedure – HP Systems Insight Manager User Manual

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Trusted Management Servers category

Certificates

establish the trust relationship between HP SIM or Insight Manager 7 and HP SMH. The Trusted

Management Servers link enables you to manage your

certificates

in the Trusted Certificates List. Note the

following:

To import a certificate to the trusted certificates list:

1.

Select Settings from the menu.

2.

In the System Management Homepage box, click the Security link.

3.

Click the Trusted Management Servers link.

4.

In the Add Certificate area, click the Import Certificate Data radio button.

5.

Copy and paste the Base64-encoded certificate into the textbox.

6.

Click Import.

To add a certificate from a server:

1.

Select Settings from the menu.

2.

In the System Management Homepage box, click the Security link.

3.

Click the Trusted Management Servers link.

4.

In the Add Certificate From Server area, click the Add Certificate From Server radio button.

5.

In the Server Name textbox, enter the IP address or server name of the HP SIM server.

6.

Click Add.

Kerberos Authentication category (Windows only)

Kerberos

is a trusted third-party network authentication protocol for client/server applications by using

secret-key cryptography developed at

MIT

. Kerberos allows different hosts and users to authenticate and

confirm the identity of each other.

One primary use of Kerberos is for offering

Single Sign-On (SSO)

capability on secure networks. Usually in

a Kerberos environment users log in only once at the start of their sessions, acquiring Kerberos credentials
that are used transparently to log in on all other services available, such as SSH, FTP, and authenticated
web sessions.

A Kerberos domain is a

realm

and is expressed in all capital letters. For example, the Kerberos realm for

smhkerberos.com is

SMHKERBEROS.COM.

Principals

are users and services/hosts that are present in a Kerberos realm and are allowed to authenticate

to each other. A

user

has a principal name such as group@REALM (for example, [email protected]),

and a service has a principal name like service/FQDN@REALM (for example,
HTTP/[email protected]

or

host/[email protected]

).

Kerberos Authentication Procedure

The following outlines the process when a user accesses secure services in a Kerberos realm.

The process only occurs when the user initially logs in to a Kerberos realm and tries to perform the first access
to a Kerberos-secured service.

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