HCP System Management Help
You can configure HCP to support either Windows Active Directory or Windows workgroups. HCP cannot support both AD and Windows workgroups at the same time.
Windows Active Directory is a Microsoft product that, among other features, provides user authentication services. You can configure HCP to support access by users authenticated by AD. With HCP configured this way, an authenticated AD user can use any HCP interface that requires authentication, such as the System Management Console, the Search Console, or the applicable namespace access protocols (provided that the user has the applicable permissions in HCP). For more information on AD, see About Active Directory.
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Important: If you have more than one HCP system for which you are enabling support for AD, one or more of those systems may need to be reconfigured to prevent conflicts. Before enabling support for AD for any of the HCP systems, contact your authorized HCP service provider. Your provider can determine whether any reconfiguration is required and then make the necessary changes. |
A Windows workgroup is a named collection of computers on a LAN that share resources such as printers and file servers. User accounts are specific to each computer in a workgroup. No authentication is required for access to the shared resources.
When you configure HCP to support Windows workgroups, you provide the name of the workgroup in which you want CIFS-enabled namespaces to be shared resources. If HCP is on the same LAN as the computers in the workgroup, all CIFS-enabled namespaces are automatically exposed in the workgroup. HCP namespaces each appear as a single shared resource with a name in this format: tenant-name_namespace-name (for example, finance_accounts-receivable). The default namespace appears as two shared resources, fcfs_data and fcfs_metadata.
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Note: If the CIFS protocol is configured to require authentication for access to a given namespace, that namespace cannot be accessed through a workgroup. |
You use the Active Directory page in the HCP System Management Console to configure support for AD and Windows workgroups. To display this page:
1.In the top-level menu in the System Management Console, mouse over Security to display a secondary menu.
2.In the secondary menu, click on Active Directory.
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Roles: To view and modify information on the Active Directory page, you need the security role. |
For information on configuring HCP to support AD, see Configuring support for Active Directory. For information on configuring HCP to support Windows workgroups, see Configuring support for Windows workgroups.
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