The Authentication Servers panel on a user source’s details page lets you edit authentication server connections, including adding, removing or reordering connections.
The Authentication Servers panel displays information about the user source’s ZENworks Primary Servers and Satellite devices that have been configured with the Authentication role. You can also edit the user source settings for each device.
When users logged in to previous versions of ZENworks, they were authenticated to the Management Zone by contacting the ZENworks Primary Server, which in turn contacted the user source that contains the users.
Satellite devices with the Authentication role can now speed the authentication process by spreading the workload among various devices and by performing authentication locally to managed devices. You can have multiple Satellite devices with the Authentication role. In addition, each Satellite with the Authentication role can have multiple user sources configured and each Satellite can have multiple connections to each user source to provide failover.
On the managed device, the Authentication module is inactive until you promote the managed device to be a Satellite with the Authentication role or until the Authentication role is added to an existing Satellite.
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In ZENworks Control Center, click the tab.
In the User Sources panel, click the name of a user source to display its details.
In the Authentication Servers panel, select the check box next to the server’s name, then click to display the Edit Authentication Server Connections dialog box.
Click to display the Add User Source Connections dialog box.
By default, the link is disabled because all connections to the user source display. If a connection is removed, the link is enabled.
(Optional) Use the field to filter the list of connections.
Specify all or part of the name for the connection to the LDAP directory, then click to display the list of connections that match the criteria.
If you have many connections in your ZENworks Management Zone, you can use the field to display only those connections that match the criteria. For example, to display all connections that contain the word “London,” type London in the field, then click .
(Optional) Use the field to filter the list of connections.
Specify part of the IP address or DNS hostname of the connection to the LDAP directory, then click to display all connections with that IP address.
If you have many connections in your ZENworks Management Zone, you can use the field to display only those connections that match the criteria. For example, to search for and display all connections that have an IP address starting with 172, type 172 in the field, then click .
In the User Source Connections list, select the check box next to the desired connection.
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In ZENworks Control Center, click the tab.
In the User Sources panel, click the name of a user source to display its details.
In the Authentication Servers panel, select the check box next to the server’s name, then click to display the Edit Authentication Server Connections dialog box.
In the User Source Connections list, select the check box next to the desired connection, then click .
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In ZENworks Control Center, click the tab.
In the User Sources panel, click the name of a user source to display its details.
In the Authentication Servers panel, select the check box next to the server’s name, then click to display the Edit Authentication Server Connections dialog box.
In the User Source Connections list, select the check box next to the desired connection, then click or .
The authentication server uses the connections in the order they are listed to authenticate the device to the ZENworks Management Zone.
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