SQL Options
The SQL options available with PowerBroker Identity Services, Enterprise Edition are easy to use and adaptable to your needs. If you already own an SQL Server enterprise license, you can easily create a BeyondTrust database because PowerBroker Identity Services, Enterprise Edition offers an SQL script that facilitates the creation of the BeyondTrust database on your SQL server. If you do not have an SQL server or do not wish to use the BeyondTrust database, you may decide to install SQL Server Express, a free version of SQL Server that enables a subset of the PowerBroker Identity Services, Enterprise Edition product and tools.
User Interface
The clean, simple UI streamlines the creation of access and compliance reports.
PowerBroker Identity Services, Enterprise Edition allows users to logon to Linux/UNIX computers using their Active Directory credentials. The PowerBroker Identity Services, Enterprise Edition Agent employs the Kerberos authentication protocol to communicate with an AD domain controller to verify that the supplied username and password are correct. PowerBroker Identity Services, Enterprise Edition also talks to AD to assure that the user has sufficient privileges to logon to a machine and to obtain the user’s Linux/UNIX user and group id’s.
What happens if the agent can not communicate with AD? Although modern networks are extremely reliable, network architects should not rely on perfect connectivity, especially when a network spans multiple geographic sites. Branch offices and other satellite facilities may be connected to the Active Directory domain controllers through leased lines or through virtual private networks (VPNs) that are subject to occasional failure.
What happens if the agent can not communicate with AD? Although modern networks are extremely reliable, network architects should not rely on perfect connectivity, especially when a network spans multiple geographic sites. Branch offices and other satellite facilities may be connected to the Active Directory domain controllers through leased lines or through virtual private networks (VPNs) that are subject to occasional failure.
Active Directory authentication for Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X
- Join non-Windows servers to Microsoft Active Directory in less than five minutes.
- Provides centralized user management for Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X.
- Provide a single username and password for all Windows and non-Windows systems.
- The only solution that does not require extending Active Directory schema to add non-Windows systems to your network.
- Support for multiple Active Directory forests and one-way and two-way cross-forest trusts.
- Credential caching in case of temporary loss of connectivity with the Active Directory Domain Controller.
- Likewise Cell Technology allows custom mapping of AD users to Unix attributes, and can provide users with different primary and secondary group memberships on different systems.