For CA Harvest SCM clients and users, external authentication provides a seamless step to the login process. When a product client connects to a product remote agent or server, the client must supply login credentials (the user name and password).
When external authentication is enabled, the product remote agent or server connects to the authentication server on start-up (for example, an LDAP server). If it fails to connect to the authentication server, it exits and records the failure of the connection attempt in the standard message log.
When using external authentication, product users are required to explicitly provide user name and password to log in to the product. This requirement applies even if the authentication server used by the product is the same one used to authenticate operating system credentials. Additionally, the user name and password used to log in to the product can be different than the ones used to log in to the operating system.
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