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6. In the fields provided, specify the information that Cisco TMSPE requires to contact the external directory.
Configure the fields according to the following table:
Field Active
Directory
(AD)
Active
Directory
with
Kerberos
(Secure
AD)
Lightweight
Directory
Access
Protocol
(LDAP)
Description
Hostname Yes Yes Yes Server hosting the external directory. Provide a fully
qualified domain name (FQDN).
Port Yes Yes Yes
Port on the server used for accessing the external directory.
Use Global Catalog port 3268 for Kerberos import.
Username Yes Yes Yes User name Cisco TMSPE uses when logging on to the
external directory. See also Password.
Password Yes Yes Yes Password Cisco TMSPE uses when logging on to the
external directory. See also Username.
Base dn Yes Yes Yes LDAP distinguished name. See the MSDN Library article
Distinguished Names
for more information.
Relative
search dn
Yes Yes Yes LDAP relative distinguished name from the Base DN (see
also Base dn). The relative DN is the baseDN's relative
filename to its parent folder. For example, if the DN is
C:\example\folder\myfile.txt
, the relative DN is
myfile.txt
. Detailed information on RDN can be found in
the MSDN Library article
Distinguished Names
.
Search
filter
Yes Yes Yes Search filter that specifies which accounts to import.
Detailed information on these filters and how to construct
them can be found in RFC4515:
Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol (LDAP): String Representation of Search
Filters
.
Distribution
center
No Yes No The address of the Kerberos Key Distribution Center server,
which is the address of your Active Directory (AD). The
value can either be a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) or
the domain where your AD server resides, in which case a
DNS SRV lookup is performed to determine the FQDN.
Distribution
center
timeout
No Yes No Maximum number of milliseconds to wait for a reply from the
Key Distribution Center.
Realm No Yes No Realm configured in AD for Kerberos Authentication.
Connection
type
No No Yes
Select the connection type. The available options are:
—
Unsecured
—
StartTLS
—
SSL
— note that no certificate handling is supported for
this connection type.
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