RSA Authentication Agent agent type values in Authentication Manager 8.x
Originally Published: 2015-09-22
Article Number
Applies To
RSA Product/Service Type: Authentication Manager
RSA Version/Condition: 8.x
Issue
The Authentication Activity report includes this column, but there is no documentation to explain the meaning of the numeric value.
Resolution
Agent Type 0 = Password authentication for the Security Console, Self-Service Console and Operations Console.
Agent Type 1 = Standard agent
Agent Type 2 = Web agent
Agent Type 3 = RADIUS server
Agent Type 4 = RADIUS client
Agent Type 7 = Authentication from authentication agents (i. e., Authentication Agent for Web, PAM, Windows, Native_SecurID, Local Authentication Client, etc) and from RADIUS clients.
Agent Type 8 = Passcode authentication for the Security Console and the Self-Service Console.
Sample authentication activity details:
Date & Time: 2015-09-22 12:50:58.397
Log Level: INFO
Activity Key: Principal authentication
Description: User “rsatest” attempted to authenticate using authenticator “SecurID_Native”. The user belongs to security domain “SystemDomain”
Action Result Key: Success
Result Key: AUTHN_METHOD_SUCCESS
Result: Authentication method success
User ID: rsatest
User First Name: RSA
User Last Name: Test1
User Security Domain: SystemDomain
User Identity Source Name: Internal Database
Agent Type: 7
Log Level: INFO
Activity Key: Principal authentication
Description: User “rsatest” attempted to authenticate using authenticator “SecurID_Native”. The user belongs to security domain “SystemDomain”
Action Result Key: Success
Result Key: AUTHN_METHOD_SUCCESS
Result: Authentication method success
User ID: rsatest
User First Name: RSA
User Last Name: Test1
User Security Domain: SystemDomain
User Identity Source Name: Internal Database
Agent Type: 7
Please note that Authentication Manager does not differentiate authentications from the Self-Service Console, the Security Console and/or the Operations Console in the Authentication Activity reports.
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