Global Controller - Local Controller authentication?

Question

If you are logged onto the GC and you click on anything (incidents for example), you are redirected to one of the local boxes and asked to log in again. Is this normal operation, or can we pass thru the authentication somehow?

Answer 1

I should provide some details. I kind of doubt that the general concept has changed (i.e. you should not have to re-auth to the local controller). You have to touch local controllers far too often in the current distributed MARS model for this to be acceptable IMHO. Perhaps someone running the GC in production can correct me on this? It either requires re-auth or it doesn't...which is it?
I can't seem to find the directory where I stored my POC data. My recollection is this:
when you clicked on an incident in the GC, you hit a page on the GC (NOT the LC) that gave you a security/session identifier [quite possibly by fetching it from the LC] and were then redirected to the LC. The redirect request to the LC contained this session identifier. I can't remember if the session identifier is in the URL, or a cookie, or in POST data. It doesn't really matter though...the key is that the request to the LC already has a valid session id.