The NSP uses Keycloak-based OAUTH2 user authentication, which supports locally defined users for NSP access. If the NSP is integrated with NFM-P, you can also import the NFM-P users to the NSP local user database. Remote authentication agents are also supported.

Note: NSP Users and Security supports up to 5000 users.

For all local and remote users, the Users and Security GUI lists information that includes the authentication source, the user creation time, and the most recent login time.

Local user accounts can be used for machine-to-machine interaction, rather than creating user accounts in your corporate user database. They also provide a backup mechanism for cases where NSP cannot communicate with the corporate user database.

Note: The NSP does not support case-sensitive usernames; local and remote usernames are saved in lowercase. Username entry at sign-in is case-insensitive.