Supported Authentication Tools
Symphony supports several approaches to authenticating users. Your organization must choose the best approach given your existing constraints and objectives.
Symphony provides basic login access to your instance. See Authorize Symphony Access.
Trusted Access can be used to allow for machine-to-machine authorization of Symphony resources when embedded in your application. This allows users to log in once to the parent application and have their security information propagated to Symphony, creating a seamless and secure user experience. See Trusted Access.
Note: insightsoftware recommends using Trusted Access for all embed-related workflows.
Symphony system administrators can enable or disable Symphony authentication services as required. The services that may be available in your environment are included on the Security Services tab.
View and edit security options
Log in as a system admin.
Select Tools > Security from the main menu.
The Security page appears. It consists of several sections, including Security Services. The Security Services tab is selected. Other tabs shown are accessible only when the corresponding service is enabled on the Security Services tab.
Enabling or disabling any of these security services requires a restart of the Symphony service to force the change to take effect. Each authentication service may have one of the following switch status depending on their state: Started, Stopped, or Will start or stop on next restart. See Enable or Disable a Security Service.
When working with security authentication services, remember that you cannot use them all at the same time. If you switch a particular security service on, others are disabled. If you want to use a security service that is currently disabled, switch running services off, start the service you want, and restart the Symphony service.
Security services compatibility
Security Service | Can Be Used With |
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SAML SSO | Trusted Access |
Trusted Access | SAML, LDAP, Kerberos, x.509 |
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