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Chapter 8 Administering and Monitoring Lab Manager
AuthenticationMethodSelecttheauthenticationmethodforyourLDAPserver.
ActiveDirectoryNegotiateChoosethismethodforActiveDirectory.
DigestMD5ChoosethismethodforOpenLDAPwithoutLDAPS.Ifyou
chooseDigestMD5,youmustprovideMD5Realminformation.
BasicChoosethismethodforOpenLDAPwithLDAPS.IfyouchooseBasic
withoutLDAPS,beawarethattheLDAPpasswordissentoverthenetwork
incleartext.
MD5RealmForDigestMD5authentication,youmustauthenticatetoaspecific
realm.Typetherealminformationhere.
UserName/Password/ConfirmPasswordUsernameandpasswordtoconnect
totheLDAPserver.
IfanonymousreadsupportisenabledonyourLDAPserver,youcanleavethese
fieldsblank.Bydefault,ActiveDirectorydoesnotenableanonymousread,but
OpenLDAPdoes.
SynchronizationEvery___(minutes)HowoftenLab Managersynchronizes
withtheLDAPserver.Thedefaultisevery15minutes.Synchronizingupdates
Lab Manageruserandgroupinformation,basedonchangestotheLDAP
directory.
Tosynchronizeimmediately,clicktheSynchronizeLDAPbutton.
LDAP Connector and Schema
ConnectorChooseActiveDirectoryorOpenLDAP.
Certainoptionsareenabledordisabledbasedonyourselection.Forexample,only
ActiveDirectorysupportserverlessbinding,andonlyOpenLDAPsupports
LDAPS.
LDAPSchemaDefinestherequiredandoptionalattributesforanLDAP
directoryentry.
IfyouselectedActiveDirectoryastheconnector,youcanchoose,ActiveDirectory
orCustomastheLDAPSchema.ChooseActiveDirectory,unlessyouareusinga
customschema.
IfyouselectedOpenLDAPastheconnector,you
canchooseCustom,
OpenLDAP(1),OpenLDAP(2),orOpenLDAP(3).OpenLDAP(1),(2),and(3)
representthemostcommonimplementationsofOpenLDAP.Checkwithyour
OpenLDAPadministratortodeterminewhichschematochoose(orifyouneeda
customschema).ChoosingOpenLDAP(1)shouldworkinmostOpenLDAP
environmentsthatarenotsignificantlycustomized.