Hey everybody, I've got a question for those of you with more experience with Perspective Workstation. So normally when failover to a redundant server occurs when using Ignition Perspective in a browser, the user is prompted to log in again. We are working with a customer that is not a fan of that…

[image] Perspective & Redundancy/Failover Ignition Early Access Perspective Workstation supports launching directly against the backup if the master is down and will return to the master when it comes back online. One caveat here is workstation caches the address to the ba…

As far as authentication is concerned, you're currently at the mercy of the identity provider. Ignition's builtin IdP doesn't have any kind of local persistence, and likely won't ever. A third party IdP might be able to keep track of things, though. Think about it the other way: From the backup gat…

Good explanation- it does make a lot of sense that they'd have it set up this way. That being said, I was doing some additional research and found this about passing IdP metadata to the redundant backup. Could that include the login information of the current user, or is this just in reference to o…

Or rather, does this just allow you to define the metadata differently on the backup?

Perspective Workstation Redundancy Without Repeated Login

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Matrix_Engineering February 2, 2024, 12:23am 2