User Authentication and Authorization

User authentication can be handled either by Active Directory or within Antigen Plus. Nearly all of our customers choose Active Directory for authentication, which is what we recommend.

Because Antigen Plus is a fat client application that runs on your local workstations, it does not require LDAP or other technology to integrate with Active Directory. It simply relies on the Windows login process to authenticate the user, and identifies the user by their SID.

If users are sharing a Windows login on laboratory workstations (not recommended), then you can optionally enable username/password based logins within Antigen Plus itself so that individual users can be identified within the software.

Authorization is performed within Antigen Plus by granting each user one of four roles: administrator, full access, save panels, or read only. Users can be managed and roles assigned by any Antigen Plus administrator, which does not require Windows administrative access.