Users must be identified and authenticated before they are granted access rights to data managed within the Novell® Operations Center environment. Operations Center provides two options for identification and authentication (I&A):
Native I&A: Uses Operations Center’ internal identification and authentication mechanism.
External I&A: LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is one method of external I&A. The LDAP method leverages an external LDAP data source for user identification and authentication.
Review the following sections for information on I&A: