Configuring SBC User Information

The User Information table lets you configure up to 500SBC users. You can use the table for the following:

■ Registering each user to an external registrar server.
■ Authenticating (for any SIP request and as a client) each user if challenged by an external server.
■ Authenticating as a server incoming user requests (for SBC security).

If the device registers on behalf of users and the users do not perform registration, any SIP request destined to the user is routed to the Proxy Set associated with the user’s IP Group.

The User Information table can be configured using any of the following methods:

■ Web interface (see Configuring SBC User Info Table through Web Interface)
■ CLI (see Configuring SBC User Info Table through CLI)
■ Loadable User Information file (see Configuring SBC User Info Table in Loadable Text File)
● For the SBC User Information feature, the device's License Key must include the license "Far End Users (FEU)", which specifies the maximum number of supported far-end users. If no far-end users are licensed, then this feature cannot be used.
● If you configure the device to authenticate as a server the incoming SIP requests from users of a specific User-type IP Group, the device authenticates the users, using the username and password configured in the IP Group's 'Username' and 'Password' parameters. However, if the user appears in the User Information table and configured with a username and/or password, then the device authenticates the user with the credentials in the table. To enable the device to authenticate as a server, configure the IP Group's 'Authentication Mode' parameter to SBC as Server.
● The maximum number of available rows (users) that you can add in the User Information table is according to the number of far-end users ("Far End Users") that is specified in the device's License Key. However, the number of licensed users cannot exceed the maximum rows supported by the device, as stated in the beginning of this section. As an example and for simplicity sake, assume that the supported number of rows is 10 and the number of licensed users is 20. In this scenario, the maximum number of available rows will be 10. If the number of licensed users is 5, the maximum number of available rows will be 5.
● This section is applicable only to the SBC application.