Veritas Flex Appliance Getting Started and Administration Guide
- Product overview
- Release notes
- Flex Appliance 3.0 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Flex Appliance 3.1 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Flex Appliance 3.2 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Flex Appliance 3.3 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Supported upgrade and update paths to this release
- Operational notes
- Flex Appliance 3.0 release content
- Flex Appliance 3.1 release content
- Flex Appliance 3.2 release content
- Flex Appliance 3.3 release content
- Getting started
- Initial configuration guidelines and checklist
- Performing the initial configuration
- Adding a node
- Accessing and using the Flex Appliance Shell
- Accessing and using the Flex Appliance Console
- Managing the appliance from the Appliance Management Console
- Setting the date and time for appliance nodes
- Common tasks in Flex Appliance
- Managing network settings
- Managing users
- Overview of the Flex Appliance default users
- Managing Flex Appliance Console users and tenants
- Adding a tenant
- Editing a tenant
- Removing a tenant
- Adding a local user to the Flex Appliance Console
- Connecting a remote user domain to the Flex Appliance Console
- Editing a remote user domain in the Flex Appliance Console
- Importing a remote user or user group to the Flex Appliance Console
- Managing single sign-on (SSO)
- Managing identity providers (IDPs)
- Importing a single sign-on user or user group to the Flex Appliance Console
- Managing user authentication with smart cards or digital certificates
- Changing a local user password in the Flex Appliance Console
- Expiring local user passwords in the Flex Appliance Console
- Unlocking a local user account in the Flex Appliance Console
- Removing users from the Flex Appliance Console
- Changing the password policy
- Changing the hostadmin user password in the Flex Appliance Shell
- Changing the sysadmin user password in the Veritas Remote Management Interface
- Using Flex Appliance
- Managing the repository
- Creating application instances
- Managing application instances from Flex Appliance and NetBackup
- Managing application instances from Flex Appliance
- Upgrading application instances
- Updating an application instance to a newer revision
- About Flex Appliance updates
- Appliance security
- Monitoring the appliance
- Registering an appliance
- Configuring alerts
- Monitoring the appliance from the System Health Insights portal
- Viewing the hardware status
- Viewing hardware faults
- Viewing system data
- Clearing the hardware status
- Forwarding logs
- Providing access for external monitoring
- Revoking access for external monitoring
- Reconfiguring the appliance
- Troubleshooting guidelines
Managing user authentication with smart cards or digital certificates
You can use smart cards or certificates for user validation with a remote user domain. This authentication method is not available for local users.
Note the following prerequisites for smart card authentication:
DNS must be configured on the appliance.
The remote users who are associated with the smart cards or digital certificates must be imported to the appliance.
See Importing a remote user or user group to the Flex Appliance Console.
Veritas recommends that the appliance date and time are set using NTP.
Follow these steps to configure user authentication with smart cards or digital certificates or to edit an existing configuration.
To configure or edit smart card authentication
- Sign in to the Flex Appliance Console as the default admin user and click the gear icon in the upper-right corner of the page, then click Smart card authentication.
- Click Configure or Edit.
- Select a certificate mapping attribute and optionally enter the OCSP URI. If you do not provide the OCSP URI, the URI in the certificate is used.
- Browse for or drag and drop the CA certificates that are associated with the user smart cards or the user digital certificates. Certificate file types must be in .pem format and less than 1,000 KB in size.
To remove a certificate, click the x next to the file name. If the certificate is part of a certificate chain, make sure that you also remove the other certificates in the chain.
Note:
If you use Mozilla Firefox, you must also remove the certificate from the browser's certificate manager. See the browser documentation for instructions.
- Click Save.
- Open a new session to the Flex Appliance Console. The sign-in page should now display an option to sign in with a certificate or smart card.
- Before a user can use a digital certificate that is not installed on a smart card, the certificate must be uploaded to the browser's certificate manager. See the browser documentation for instructions.
- Once a user inserts a smart card or uploads a certificate, they are prompted to select and authenticate the certificate when they open a new session to the Flex Appliance Console. Once they do so, they can use the certificate to sign in.
If the user does not select and authenticate the certificate when prompted, they can still sign in with their username and password.
Follow these steps to disable user authentication with smart cards or digital certificates or to enable it after it has been disabled.
To disable or enable smart card authentication
- Sign in to the Flex Appliance Console as the default admin user and click the gear icon in the upper-right corner of the page, then click Smart card authentication.
- Click Disable or Enable.
If you disable smart card authentication, users no longer see an option to sign in with a certificate or smart card.