In addition to the existing on-premises and cloud-based deployments, Advanced Authentication is now available in the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. Micro Focus hosts and maintains the Advanced Authentication Servers with their databases. You can use it to secure access to your corporate resources, such as various portals, workstations, and VPN servers.
For more information about Advanced Authentication and its features, see Introduction to Advanced Authentication.
The following are the key differences between SaaS and non-SaaS models.
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Feature |
Advanced Authentication |
Advanced Authentication as a Service |
|---|---|---|
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Setup |
Installation is required |
Installation is not required |
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Billing |
License-based |
Subscription-based |
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Hardware |
Must meet the recommended system requirements |
Does not require extensive hardware |
For more information about this release and for the latest release notes, see the Documentation Advanced Authentication NetIQ Documentation page. For more information about the product and support, see the Advanced Authentication Product website.
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Advanced Authentication as a Service provides the following new features and enhancements:
This release introduces integration with Cloud Bridge. Cloud Bridge acts as a middleware between the Advanced Authentication servers deployed across the cloud and on-premises setups. Cloud Bridge pulls the user data from the on-premises repositories and makes this data available periodically or on-demand requests to Advanced Authentication. This enhance security in the communication between the Advanced Authentication server and the repositories during authenticating users.
For more information, see Adding a Cloud Bridge External Repository in the Advanced Authentication - Administration guide.
This release introduces the NPS Plug-in to configure multi-factor authentication for RADIUS clients on Microsoft Windows. You can install and configure the NPS Plug-in to work with Microsoft NPS. This plug-in acts as a connector between the Advanced Authentication server deployed on cloud and on-premises RADIUS clients.
For more information, see Advanced Authentication - NPS Plug-in Guide.
This release introduces a new capability to configure multi-factor authentication for RADIUS clients on Linux. You can install and configure the RADIUS Agent to work on Linux. The RADIUS Agent acts like a RADIUS Server and as a connector between the Advanced Authentication server deployed on cloud and on-premises RADIUS clients.
For more information, see Advanced Authentication - RADIUS Agent for Linux.
Now, you can export the tenant database to the .tcpt format. This feature enables you to take a backup of the tenant database and import the database to another system if needed. The backup database includes configurations of Dashboard, Repositories, Methods, Chains, Events, Endpoints, Policies, Logs, Licenses, Tenant database, and Enrollment.
For more information, see Tenant Export or Import.
This release introduces a new report called Billing-Unique User per Month. This report includes the unique user logon count in the selected period. This report enables you to identify the logon count of a user in various periods.
For more information, see Report Types in the Advanced Authentication - Administration guide.
Now, users can use the email address as the login name. The user does not need to specify a tenant name to authenticate. Advanced Authentication looks for the email address across all tenants.
For more information, see Login Options in the Advanced Authentication - Administration guide.
Now, you can configure Windows, Mac OS, and Linux PAM clients to work with Advanced Authentication servers via HTTP Proxy.
For more information, see the following resources:
Configuring to Connect Via HTTP Proxy in the Advanced Authentication - Windows Client guide
Configuring to Connect Via HTTP Proxy in the Advanced Authentication - Mac OS X Client guide
Configuring to Connect Via HTTP Proxy in the Advanced Authentication- Linux PAM Client guide
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