SSO Configuration for Windows Authentication
Applies to: Kyvos Enterprise Kyvos Cloud (SaaS on AWS) Kyvos AWS Marketplace
Kyvos Azure Marketplace Kyvos GCP Marketplace Kyvos Single Node Installation (Kyvos SNI)
There are mainly two authentication protocols for Windows Authentication, namely NTLM and Kerberos. Kerberos is the default protocol. For some Windows versions, NTLM is used instead.
Kyvos supports Jespa third-party jar files for SSO authentication. It also works on Tomcat on Linux and supports only NTLM protocol.
Prerequisites
For SSO using Windows authentication, the Windows user(s) must be imported into Kyvos.
Jespa configuration
To configure Jespa for Single-sign-on login to the Kyvos Manager using Admin credentials, perform the following steps.
Click Security > Kyvos Authentication.
Select the Single Sign On Configuration checkbox and enter details as:
Parameter/Field
Comments/Description
Single Sign On Provider
Select the JESPA option
Bind Address
Enter the machine name where this computer account has been created.
DNS Servers IPs
Comma-separated list of DNS Server IPs.
Computer Account Name
JESPA, as an SSO provider, needs a computer account name for system authentication against the active directory.
Computer Account Password
Enter the password for the computer account name mentioned above.
jespa jar
Upload the JESPA jar file. Kyvos uses this to perform SSO using JESPA. You can download the jar from https://www.ioplex.com/downloads.php
Click the Validate JESPA Configuration button to verify that the JESPA settings mentioned are correct.
Click Kyvos and Ecosystem > Properties.
On the Properties page, in the kyvosclient.properties, set the value for SYSTEM_AUTH_ENABLED to YES. This will allow users to connect to the Kyvos Web using Windows authentication.
In the biserver.properties file enter the CLIENT_URL in the http://webapplicationurl:port/AppName format.
Connecting to BI tools
To connect Kyvos to a third-party BI tool through SSO, use the URL as: http://webapplicationurl:port/AppName/xmlaKyvosSSO