Canon imagePRESS C1 Service Manual - page 681
Chapter 11
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SSO-H has collaborative linkage with imageWARE access management, imageWARE Accounting Manager and Net Spot Accounting.
Only when used with 'Local device authentication', can department ID/ passwords be allocated to users.
In the event that these are allocated, authentication can be performed even when the main unit's department management is ON.
Department ID and department passwords are not allocated to domain users.
When the main unit's department management function is ON, domain users cannot be authenticated.
System administrator linkage (automatic allocation of ID to administrator)
[Restriction] With SSO, there was a function where ID programmed on SA would be allocated to domain authentication administrators (Canon Peripheral Admins
Group users) on SA, and system administrators automatically authenticated, but with SSO-H this is now unsupported.
Site internal access mode
With SSO-H, access to Active Directory within site can be prioritized or restricted, so there is a setting called 'Site internal access mode'. Sites programmed in
Active Directory comprise multiple subnets. In this mode, SSO-H uses site information to access the same site as the device, or the subnet Active Directory.
- The SSO-H default setting is with the site internal access mode OFF.
- Access Active Directory within same site only.
- If there is no Active Directory within the same site, or if connection fails, there will be an authentication error.
- Access another site if Active Directory within the same site cannot be located.
- If there is no Active Directory within the same site, or if connection fails, an Active Directory external to the site will be accessed.
- If all attempts to access Active Directory fail, there will be an authentication error.
The operating specifications of the site internal access mode are as described below.
When first logging in to the login service after booting iR, the domain controller (DC) is obtained from the site list.
However, upon the first login, even if the site functionality is active, connection to DC is random. (This is because, if connection to DC should fail, the site to which
the device belongs cannot be ascertained.)
If the device IP address or the domain name are changed, the site settings are acquired once more.
In this mode, at the first login (first authentication of domain to which the device belongs) LDAP-Bind is performed directly to DC and site information acquired
by LDAP from DC.
From the acquired site list, the site to which the device subnet belongs is extracted and this becomes the site to which device belongs.
Active Directory address is acquired (retrieved from DNS)
Settings for site internal access mode
Switching between site internal access mode/ non site internal access mode, as well as detailed mode settings, are done via DMS or iWEMC.
Site internal access mode settings window (DMS)
Site list acquisition
After booting up, upon the first login by LLS or ILS/ RLS, the site list is obtained from the Active Directory. In order to obtain the site list from the Active Directory,
Active Directory needs to be accessed in LDAP, so SASL-Kerberos-Bind is used by the login user account. If authentication by Active Directory should fail, an
authentication error will be generated and the site list will be acquired again from Active Directory upon the next login.
In SSO-H, the Active Directory to be accessed when acquiring the site list cannot be specified. In other words, if there is no site list, which site's Active Directory
is accessed depends upon the order of the Active Directory addresses returned by DNS. Therefore, when acquiring the site list, LDAP may access the Active Di-
rectory of a different site. Therefore, in such cases, it is sometimes necessary to access across sites or subnets, which means that LDAP protocol needs to have
continuity across sites (subnets) (normally, LDAP is port No. 389). Further, if connection with Active Directory fails when acquiring site information, another
Active Directory will be accessed.
Site information, once it has been acquired, is cached within the device. The life settings of the cache can be set so that site information in the cache is updated
upon the first login after the device boots up, or so that the cache is not updated once acquired.
Settings for site internal access mode
Switching between site internal access mode/ non site internal access mode, as well as detailed mode settings, are done via DMS or iWEMC.
Site internal access mode settings window (DMS)
Site internal access mode settings window (DMS)
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MEMO:
With SSO, linkage with iWAM/ iWAM account summary manager was assumed and department management linkage was enabled even in domain authentication,
but with SSO-H, this is now unsupported.
The Active Directory subnet is assumed to be the same subnet as the device subnet.
In the Active Directory addresses, the Active Directories of the same site are listed.
Active Directories of the same subnet as the device are listed first.
If there is no Active Directory with the same subnet as the device, Active Directories belonging to different subnets than the device are listed.
The Active Directories within the same site are accessed in order. Note, however, that where there are multiple Active Directories within the same site, access to
those Active Directories will be in the order in which the address list was obtained.
If there is no Active Directory within the same site, if access outside of the site is programmed, Active Directories outside of the site will be accessed in the order in
which the address list was obtained.