Hi
imagine you have to use user- instead of device authentication for devices in NCM,
e.g. because your company policy does only allow you to store passwords in Windows AD database and not in any other DBs.
I did some tests to achieve this requirement:
1. change device connectivity method to use user and device login credentials
2. change the login information for all devices from "Device" to "User"
3. in Orion Core, added a new user "test"
4. logged in to NCM application with "test" credentials
5. test login credentials for a device - telnet sniffer capture in background
---> What I see, NCM still uses the device login information defined under global macro settings...
6. Then I used "File" > "Change My Device Login Credentials" and again entered the credentials already used in Orion Core user creation.
---> Now finally NCM uses the user credentials instead of the device credentials.
So, is there really no way to use ONLY Orion Core credentials for NCM user authentication ?
As a conclusion if above is true, there is currently no way to use AD users from Orion Core in NCM without adding the AD password into the NCM database ?
(I assume the "Change My Device Login Credentials" writes the user credentials into the NCM database...)
Thanks in advance for any comments...
Herwig
