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Status Under review
Workspace SevOne
Categories Network Management System (NMS)
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 2, 2026

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Make SevOne SSO fully resilient so authentication continues to work automatically during leader failover without manual reconfiguration

SevOne removed support for RADIUS/TACACS in recent versions, leaving LDAP (resilient but weak/single‑factor) and SSO (strong but not resilient).
Currently, SevOne SSO breaks during cluster leader failover and requires manual reconfiguration of both SevOne and the Identity Provider.
This prevents us in Euroclear from using strong authentication and forces us to rely on a temporary security exception.

Why is it useful? Who benefits? How should it work?

A resilient SSO mechanism would allow SevOne to maintain MFA‑based authentication across all failover scenarios.
All SevOne customers using HA clusters would benefit.

How it should work:

  • SSO should continue working automatically across leader failover.
  • No manual updates to SevOne SSO config or the Identity Provider should be needed.
  • SSO configuration should replicate across all peers.

This enables compliant strong authentication without service interruption.

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Ryan Wilson
    Mar 4, 2026

    Khaoula,

    Currently SSO with SevOne is setup using an instance of Dex that runs on the cluster leader. In NMS 8.2 we are deleting Dex for security reasons and requiring customers to migrate to another solution, with IBM recommending Keycloak. We are currently testing whether Keycloak can be setup with alternate redirect IPs for the IdP to function if the cluster leader fails over or even goes down by redirecting the responsibility to authenticate via one of the other peers.

    While we work on this I'd appreciate if you have any thoughts or feedback on this potential approach.

    Regards,

    Ryan Wilson, Senior Product Manager, SevOne NPM

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