Remedy Single Sign-On at-a-glance


The TrueSight Presentation Server component uses Remedy Single Sign-On (Remedy SSO) to manage tenants and authenticate users. Earlier releases of TrueSight Presentation Server used Atrium Single Sign-On (Atrium SSO) to handle these functions. Because Remedy SSO does not provide a direct upgrade from Atrium SSO, you must install Remedy SSO and migrate users from Atrium SSO before upgrading the TrueSight Presentation Server.

Before installing or upgrading the TrueSight Presentation Server, review the sections in this topic to familiarize yourself with the Remedy SSO product. The TrueSight Operations Management and Presentation Server documentations include the following Remedy SSO information:

  • Planning and installation for Remedy SSO
  • Configuring the general settings
  • Configuring tenants
  • Configuring Local, LDAP/AD, and SAMLv2 authentication to work with the Presentation Server
  • Migrating internal user data from Atrium SSO to Remedy SSO

For more information on Remedy SSO, you can also access the Remedy Single Sign-On documentation.

Remedy SSO overview

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Supported Remedy Single Sign-On Server versions with Presentation Server

The following table illustrates the required versions of TrueSight Presentation Server and Remedy SSO for TrueSight Presentation Server.

TrueSight Presentation Serverversion

11.0.00

Remedy Single Sign-On version

9.1.03.001 and later.

1 - You can use the instructions in this document to download, install, upgrade, or configure only Remedy SSO 9.1.03.001 version.

2 - If you want to download, install, upgrade, or configure a 9.1.04 version, go to Remedy Single Sign-On 9.1.04 EPD page and perform the installation instructions given in Remedy Single Sign-On 9.1.04.

3 - If you want to upgrade and configure one of the supported higher version of Remedy SSO, seeRemedy Single Sign-On 18.02., Remedy Single Sign-On 18.05., or Remedy Single Sign-On 18.08..


Note: If you have Remedy Single Sign-On installed, you must check and apply the relevant patches for a seamless integration with the TrueSight Presentation Server. Before proceeding with the patch installation, stop the TrueSight Presentation Server and back up Remedy Single Sign-On.

Remedy SSO features

Remedy SSO is a lightweight system that offers the following features:

  • Multiple deployment options
  • High-availability and session failover provisions
  • Multitenancy option by default
  • User ID transformations
  • Authentication Fallback/Chaining
  • Login page branding
  • Logging options

For the TrueSight Presentation Server, Remedy SSO supports only the following localization languages:

  • English
  • German
  • Simplified Chinese

Remedy SSO and TrueSight Presentation Server upgrade 

The Remedy SSO server must be installed before you install or upgrade the TrueSight Presentation Server. Before upgrading the TrueSight Presentation Server, you must perform the following steps.

  1. Install Remedy SSO.
  2. Migrate the internal user groups and internal users from Atrium SSO to Remedy SSO.


Remedy SSO and Atrium SSO comparison

For existing Presentation Server and Operation Management users, the following comparison is provided:

Area

Remedy SSO

Atrium SSO

Overall features

  • A light-weight application that provides the single sign-on capability.
  • Simple to set up the failover or high-availability environment.
  • User interface is easy to use, set up, and configure.
  • Can backup and restore configuration data.
  • Uses a subset of technologies within the OpenAM project that are required by BMC products to provide single sign-on capability.
  • Complex to set up the failover or high-availability environment.
  • User interface is complex to use, set up, and configure.
  • Cannot backup and restore configuration data.

User login
workflow

  • Customizable login page.
  • Log in from the Remedy SSO server login page or from the SAML IdP login page.
  • Single-step login (for a single-tenant environment): Enter the Presentation Server user name and password to log in.

  • Two-step login (for a multi-tenant environment)
    • Step 1: Enter the application domain value of the tenant (realm).
    • Step 2: Enter the Presentation Server user name and password to log in.
  • Log in from the Presentation Server login page.
  • Single-step login: Enter the Presentation Server user name and password to log in.

Supported authentication types

  • Local
  • LDAP/AD
  • SAMLv2
  • Internal (Local)
  • LDAP/AD

Default
tenant (realm)

* (asterisk) is the default tenant (realm).

BmcRealm is the default tenant (realm).

Installation options

Two different installers are available.

  • Remedy SSO server installer: Default Remedy SSO installation program that does not install prerequisite software, such as JRE, Tomcat, and a database. It supports the Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL databases.

  • Remedy SSO for TrueSight installer: A consolidated installation program that installs all of the prerequisite software required to install Remedy SSO for use with TrueSight Presentation Server. It supports only the PostgreSQL database.

Single consolidated installer.

Communication interface

Uses both a web agent and REST APIs.

Uses only REST APIs.

Related topics

11-0-00-enhancements

Getting-started

Planning Remedy SSO deployment

Installing-Remedy-SSO

Configuring-the-general-settings-in-the-Remedy-SSO-server


Configuring user authentication for the Presentation Server in Remedy SSO

Migrating internal user data from Atrium SSO to Remedy SSO

Where to go from here

 

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