Admin Console > Authentication > Multiple authentication forms

Multiple authentication forms

You can configure different authentication types for each Viewer instance and for Insight. Each instance has its own URL to access Insight.

For example, you may need your internal staff to use Windows authentication to view a dashboard and your customers to use HTTP response authentication to view the same dashboard.

  1. Start the Insight Installation Manager.
  2. In the Insight Installation Manager, click Virtual Directories > Edit > Add New View to add a new Viewer instance.
    Note Each added Viewer can be assigned a different type of authentication.

    All added Viewer instances are listed in the Insight Installation Manager.

  3. Log in to Admin Console and on the Documents Tree, select Authentication.

    All Viewer instances appear in the Application list.

  4. Set the required type of authentication for each application on the list.
    Examples

    • To only accept Insight users, select the Login panel and Fixed values for the Viewer instance such as View1.

    • To access the Viewer instance View1, by the link, add View1 to the end of the string in place of <Viewer instance name> : <server name>/Insight/<Viewer instance name>. Following is an example of the string:https://myserver.com/Insight/View1.

    • To only accept Windows authentication for View2, select Windows authentication for the Viewer instance View2.

    In this case, all Insight users access Insight via a specific URL and all Windows Active Directory users access Insight via a different URL.

    In this way, https://myserver.com/Insight/View1 authenticates only Insight users, while https://myserver.com/Insight/View2 authenticates only Windows Active Directory users.

Use the default project parameters for authentication

By default, Insight verifies all available roles and user filters to define the level of access. To streamline the authentication process and restrict the number of roles for a verification, you can select the Use default project from request parameters for authentication and authorization check box. When this check box is selected, the project called by the user is considered to be the default project. Authentication parameters for this project are taken from a request, such as the URL. In this case, the system verifies only the roles assigned to this project.

  1. In Admin Console > Options, select Other settings.
  2. Select the Use default project from request parameters for authentication and authorization check box.