User authentication

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This section describes how to configure user authentication for th e CAST dashboards.

Introduction

The CAST dashboards have various authentication modes available for use:

Mode	Description
Default authentication	This mode is active by default and relies on simple username/password authentication defined in the application-security-default.xml configuration file within the web application.
Standard LDAP	This mode is inactive by default and allows users to authenticate with a standard LDAP server. For example: First login and become admin Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 Info This step is not required when using Dashboards 1.x and can be skipped. Introduction Before your users can starting using the CAST Dashboards/RestAPI, you must ensure that at least one user has been granted the ADMIN role which has permission to access all data and configuration settings. There are various ways to do this, all detailed below. Warning This action must be completed from the same machine where the Dashboard is deployed, i.e. using the URL http://localhost. This is a security mechanism and attempting this action from another host on the network will fail. Note that when using SAML authentication mode, the requirement to perform this action using the URL http://localhostis removed and can be performed from any machine. Dashboard Service license key configuration Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 Info Summary: This section details how to configure a license key for accessing a Dashboard schema via a CAST dashboard web application (e.g. Engineering/Security Dashboard, RestAPI…). Introduction When you want to access a Dashboard schema, a special license key is required. This license key grants specific access to one or multiple Dashboard schemas for the web application in which the license key is installed. There are two types of license key:

Mode

Description

Default authentication

This mode is active by default and relies on simple username/password authentication defined in the application-security-default.xml configuration file within the web application.

Standard LDAP

This mode is inactive by default and allows users to authenticate with a standard LDAP server. For example:

First login and become admin

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

This step is not required when using Dashboards 1.x and can be skipped.

Introduction

Before your users can starting using the CAST Dashboards/RestAPI, you must ensure that at least one user has been granted the ADMIN role which has permission to access all data and configuration settings. There are various ways to do this, all detailed below.

Warning

This action must be completed from the same machine where the Dashboard is deployed, i.e. using the URL http://localhost. This is a security mechanism and attempting this action from another host on the network will fail. Note that when using SAML authentication mode, the requirement to perform this action using the URL **http://localhost**is removed and can be performed from any machine.

Dashboard Service license key configuration

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This section details how to configure a license key for accessing a Dashboard schema via a CAST dashboard web application (e.g. Engineering/Security Dashboard, RestAPI…).

Introduction

When you want to access a Dashboard schema, a special license key is required. This license key grants specific access to one or multiple Dashboard schemas for the web application in which the license key is installed. There are two types of license key:

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User authentication

Introduction

First login and become admin

Introduction

Dashboard Service license key configuration

Introduction