4.4 Configuring Authentication to Novell Access Manager

The NetIQ Cloud Manager administrator can choose to authenticate customers through Novell Access Manager (NAM).

This section helps you to prepare the information you need to configure Cloud Manager authentication through Novell Access Manager. If you want to use some other authentication service, see Section 4.1, Configuring Authentication to an LDAP Directory, Section 4.2, Configuring Authentication through an NCSS Director, or Section 4.3, Configuring LDAP Plus NCSS Authentication.

If you want to learn more about Novell Access Manager, see the Novell Access Manager 3.1 SP3 documentation Web site.

  1. Make sure you know the information you are prompted to provide during the Access Manager authentication configuration:

    Information Needed to Configure Authentication to NAM

    Description

    Cloud Manager Administrator user name

    Specify the initial user name that you want to designate as the Cloud Manager administrator.

    This should be the new administrator’s login name or Common Name (CN) and must already exist in your LDAP directory.

    Cloud Manager Administrator email address

    Specify the email address of the user you want to be the Cloud Manager administrator.

    This email address must already exist as an LDAP attribute of the future administrator. If the user has more than one email address, use the first address in the email attributes list.

    Cloud Manager uses this email address to determine the administrative permissions to apply to the user.

    As you continue running the configuration tool (/opt/netiq/cloudmanager/configurator/config) following the configuration of the Postgres database, the tool displays the following text:

    Authentication Type

1) LDAP
2) NCSS
3) LDAP plus NCSS
4) NAM

Selection:

  2. Specify 4 (NAM) as the Authentication Type you want to configure.

  3. Follow the prompts and use the information you gathered in Step 1 to complete this segment of the configuration.

After the Novell Access Manager authentication configuration, continue with Section 5.0, Installing and Configuring Other Cloud Manager Feature Settings.