Watchdoc Agent SSO - Presentation

Principle

In certain professional contexts, a generic session may be opened on a computer workstation to enable a whole group to use it. For example, in a hospital department, all the medical staff such as secretaries, orderlies, nurses and doctors.

In this case, to enable each user to work in a personalised environment, the workstation can be equipped with third-party authentication software (such as SSOx^® from Avencis).

In such a configuration, since authentication is not based on any directory, Watchdoc cannot ensure secure printing. It is therefore necessary to install the Watchdoc Agent SSO tool, developed specifically for this purpose. Thanks to the data collected on the client workstation by the SSO software and sent to Watchdoc, the SSO Agent establishes a correspondence between print requests from the client workstation and its user directory (A.D.). The data contained in the spools makes it possible to associate the print jobs requested with their users (authenticated in the A.D.) and, in this way, to release the print jobs in complete security.

Prerequisites

Before installing the Watchdoc SSO Agent, check the following prerequisites:

• NET 4.6.1 (min.) or 4.7.2 (recommended) is installed on client workstations;

• Watchdoc V5.1.1 (min.) ;

• ability of the SSO software to send the user's SAM AccountName to Watchdoc;

• in the case of a multi-domain environment, the ability of the SSO software to send the user's domain name to Watchdoc;

  • ability of the SSO software to call an executable with the following arguments :

  • when authenticating the user: ‘PATH_ TO_EXECUTABLE\WatchdocSSOAgent.exe’ /standalone /event LogOn/user ‘USER_LOGIN’.

    When the user logs out: ‘PATH_ TO_EXECUTABLE\WatchdocSSOAgent.exe’ /standalone /event LogOff ‘LogOff is optional, as the next authentication (LogOn) automatically logs out the previously logged-in user.