By default, all P6 EPPM applications use Native authentication. After you install your P6 EPPM applications, you can choose a different authentication scheme.
Note: If you are upgrading from a previous version of P6 EPPM, see the P6 EPPM Upgrade and Configuration Guide before modifying the authentication settings.
Your database controls your Authentication mode.
- When using SSO mode, P6 Integration API and P6 EPPM Web Services use LDAP mode.
- If using LDAP authentication, you can specify LDAP servers, configure more than one LDAP server for each database instance, map LDAP attributes to P6 EPPM database fields, and provision users.
Follow the guidelines below to specify an authentication scheme and perform additional configuration tasks for authentication:
- Configure administrative settings using the Primavera P6 Administrator. See About the Authentication Tab in the Primavera P6 Administrator for details on these settings.
- When using LDAP mode, provision user information from the LDAP server using P6. See Provisioning LDAP User Information for the First Time for details.
- Configure Oracle Analytics Server to use with P6 when using LDAP or SSO mode. See the P6 EPPM Oracle Analytics Server Configuration Guide for more information.
Tips
- If multiple instances within a configuration point to the same database, P6 EPPM will use the Authentication Mode for the first instance in the list.
- To enable you to configure more than one LDAP server for each database instance, you can set multiple LDAP Connection Settings for authentication. Right-click the LDAP Connection Settings folder to duplicate, delete, copy, paste, or test a configuration. When P6 authenticates a user, it will search each LDAP server in order for a user name that matches the login name and will use the first matching user to verify the password.
- A configuration for P6 might include database instances that are not set to the same authentication mode as the P6 server. If a user connects and requests a database that is set to a different authentication mode than the P6 server, an error message will display; the user must select a database that matches the authentication mode set for the P6 server.