Because of changes to CM login administration in CM4, the SAT
list logins command no longer exists, and the Maintenance Web
Interface offers no way to view the already-administered customer
logins. System administrators are reduced to grepping through
/etc/passwd and /etc/group using the BASH CLI to attempt to
discover what logins they already have, and what profiles are
associated with those logins. This EI customer, XXXX
considers this deficiency to be unacceptable and informed the Product
Introduction engineers that it is inconceivable that Avaya would
roll-out a new GA release with such a deficiency. Other
customers and business partners as well as internal services
associates concur in this assessment.
This particular customer and others want badly for the SAT login
administration conventions to remain exactly the same as in CM3,
but that is unlikely due to the incompatibility of such a scheme
with industry imperatives for Authentication, Authorization, and
Accounting (AAA) architecture and design. Applications like CM no
longer drive AAA: they are now clients of centralized server-based
implementations in which all applications look to a single central <<<<<
authentication source for login administration.
CM4 design complies with the new AAA concept by moving local host
account login administration out of CM4 and into the Linux platform
and offers login administration tools via Linux Command Line Interface
and via Maintenance Web Interface Options. Web Pages are the preferred
login administration method, but the CM4.0 release offers no web option
to view the customer's previously-administered local host account logins
and their related profiles on the same page. (Local host accounts are
those accounts whose AAA database information is stored entirely locally,
on the Linux server).