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Multiple Viewers

In case you need to combine different authentication types, you can configure multiple Viewers with different authentication types. Each instance has its own URL to access Insight.

For example, you may need your internal staff to use Windows authentication to view a dashboard and your customers to use HTTP response authentication to view the same dashboard.

  1. Log in to Admin Console. In the Documents tree, select Application settings.
  2. Click Add View to add a new Viewer instance.

    Each added Viewer can be assigned a different type of authentication.

    All added Viewer instances appear in the Application list.

    You can delete the selected Viewer instance by clicking Remove View.

  3. Set the required type of authentication for each Viewer instance on the list.
    Examples

    • To only accept Insight users, select the Insight Authentication and Fixed values for the Viewer instance such as "View1."

    • To access the Viewer instance View1, by the link, add "View1" to the end of the string in place of <Viewer instance name> : <server name>/Insight/<Viewer instance name>. Following is an example of the string:https://myserver.com/Insight/View1.

    • To only accept Windows authentication for "View2," select Windows authentication for the Viewer instance "View2. "

    In this case, all Insight users access Insight via a specific URL and all Windows Active Directory users access Insight via a different URL.

    In this way, https://myserver.com/Insight/View1 authenticates only Insight users, while https://myserver.com/Insight/View2 authenticates only Windows Active Directory users.

Use the default project parameters for authentication

By default, Insight verifies all available roles and user filters to define the level of access. To streamline the authentication process and restrict the number of roles for a verification, you can select the Use default project from request parameters for authentication and authorization check box. When this check box is selected, the project called by the user is considered to be the default project. Authentication parameters for this project are taken from a request, such as the URL. In this case, the system verifies only the roles assigned to this project.

  1. In Admin Console > Options, select Other settings.
  2. Select the Use default project from request parameters for authentication and authorization check box.