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User Guide for Cisco Digital Media Manager 5.2.x
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Chapter 6 Authentication and Federated Identity
Concepts
Overview
User authentication features of DMS-Admin help you to:
• NEW IN CISCO DMS 5.2.0—Authenticate all user sessions. We now we prevent you from disabling
mandatory authentication, even though we allowed this in Cisco DMS 5.1.x and prior releases.
• Choose and configure an authentication method.
• Import user account settings from an Active Directory server.
• NEW IN CISCO DMS 5.2.1—Synchronize user groups from an Active Directory server.
• NEW IN CISCO DMS 5.2.3—Use federation services with a SAML 2.0-compliant IdP to support
SP-initiated “single sign-on” login authentication in your network (following an initial
synchronization to a Microsoft Active Directory Server that populates the DMM user database).
Note We support your use of one—and only one—IdP server with Cisco DMS 5.2.3.
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Active Directory
Microsoft implementation of LDAP. A central authentication server and user store.
Active Directory
forest
A domain-straddling combination of Active Directory trees within an organization that operates
multiple Internet domains. Thus, the forest at “Amalgamated Example, LLC” might straddle all trees
across example
.com, example.net, and example.org.
Or, to use Cisco as a real-world case-study, one forest could straddle cisco.com and webex.com,
among others.
Note This Cisco DMS release does not support Active Directory forests.
Active Directory
tree
A subdomain-straddling combination of IdPs throughout one Internet domain. These IdPs operate
collectively on behalf of the Internet domain’s constituent subdomains. Thus, the “tree” at
example.com might encompass all of the IdPs to authenticate user sessions within subdomains such
as these:
• legal.example.com
•sales.example.com
• support.example.com