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Chapter 6: Creating Scalable and Highly Available Web Sites
You may want to use this security setting if your organization is fairly large and
contains many distributed administrator groups that need to access your server
clusters. To use this setting, you must define your global administrators' group
in the form "BT_clustername", where clustername is the exact name of the
cluster you created with the ClusterCATS Explorer. The global administrators
group must exist within the same domain as the clustered servers.
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The following sections describe how to enable the type of authentication most
appropriate for your environment.
Configuring local-user authentication
Configuring Windows NT domain authentication
Disabling authentication
Configuring local-user authentication
Local-User authentication lets ClusterCATS authenticate specific users on a per-server
basis. Local users of a server must have an account on the server where the Web server
resides.
For example, if a cluster includes several Web servers and you only have an account on
one, then you can only administer that server.
To enable local-user authentication:
1. Create a user account on each server within your cluster for each administrator
that you want to be able to administer the servers using the ClusterCATS Explorer.
If your cluster members are NT servers, use the Windows User Manager utility to
create your user accounts.
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2. Open the ClusterCATS Explorer and select a cluster icon.
3. Choose Administration from the Configure menu or choose Properties from the
Cluster menu. Both menu selections display the Properties dialog box.
Alternatively, you can right-click the cluster and select Configure>Administration.
The Properties dialog box appears.
On UNIX platforms, ClusterCATS provides only two administration
security modes — Disabled and Local User authentication. See
"Configuring administrator authentication" on page 252 to configure
administration security using the ClusterCATS Web Explorer.
If only one person will administer all cluster members in the cluster,
be sure to create the same user account (identical user name and
password) on each cluster member. The ClusterCATS Explorer will
consequently prompt you only once for a user name and password.
However, if multiple, different administrator accounts are created on
each server, ClusterCATS Explorer will display user name and
password prompts upon each attempt to access the servers from the
ClusterCATS Explorer.
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