Hello, Sorry, this is a bit of an advert, but also an interesting addition to this thread.
At JSS, we've just completed a solution to reduce the complexity of AR System authentication after a customer asked us why they still needed the BMC AREA LDAP plugin if they had SSO enabled their AR System. It was a good question, because BMC are dropping support for the Windows User Tool and hence all front end user access will be via the Midtier. The AREA Plugin is not quick to configure, and a separate plugin can be required for each Active Directory, providing multiple levels of effort/configuration. In contrast, you can configure SSO Plugin with four pieces of information - two of which are the service account username/password and the other two are available from opening a Windows command prompt. Once configured, the plugin can authenticate users against all Domain Controllers on a typical corporate network. Only yesterday did we put together a video on this topic, so if you're interested in seeing the functionality, click on the "features and functions" video on this page (http://www.javasystemsolutions.com/jss/ssoplugin) and step through to 3min 50sec. Credit for this superb suggestion goes to Sascha, a Remedy Admin at a large German BMC client :-) John _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
