Dell SonicWALL - Directory Services Connector overview; About Single Sign-On; About Directory Services Connector

Dell SonicWALL Directory Services Connector 3.7
Administration Guide
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Directory Services Connector overview
This chapter provides an overview of the Dell SonicWALL Directory Services Connector (DSC). It includes an
introduction to DSC and the SSO Agent, along with the supported user identification methods and platform
compatibilities.
Topics:
• About Single Sign-On on page 6
• About Directory Services Connector on page 6
• About Agent-to-Agent communication on page 7
• About the SSO Agent cache on page 8
• About Single Sign-On with Active Directory or LDAP on page 9
• About Single Sign-On with Novell eDirectory on page 10
• About user identification methods on page 11
• About client probing with NETAPI or WMI on page 11
• About DC security logs on page 11
• About using Samba on Linux/UNIX clients on page 13
• Platform compatibility on page 13
About Single Sign-On
Single Sign-On (SSO) is a transparent user authentication mechanism that provides privileged access to multiple
network resources with a single workstation login. Dell SonicWALL security appliances provide SSO functionality
using the Dell SonicWALL Single Sign-On Agent (SSO Agent) to identify user activity based on the workstation IP
address.
SSO is configured in the Users > Settings page of the SonicOS management interface. SSO is separate from the
authentication method for login settings that can be used at the same time for authentication of VPN/L2TP
client users or administrative users.
About Directory Services Connector
Dell SonicWALL Directory Services Connector includes the Dell SonicWALL Single Sign-On Agent (SSO Agent) as
well as certain configuration functions. The SSO Agent provides centralized user-identification to Dell
SonicWALL network security appliances, interacting with the SonicOS Single Sign-On feature.
Directory Services Connector provides integration with both Active Directory and Novell eDirectory. Specifically,
these are supported as follows:
1 Dell SonicWALL SuperMassive series, E-Class NSA series, NSA series, and TZ series appliances (TZ 100 and
newer) to achieve transparent, automated Single Sign-On integration with both Active Directory and
Novell eDirectory.