4.2

Define the LDAP User and Group Lookup Paths
You can define the users and groups lookup information.
Two global roles are identified in Orchestrator: Developers and Administrators. The users in the Developers
role have editing privileges on all elements. The users in the Administrators role have unrestricted privileges.
Administrators can manage permissions, or discharge administration duties on a selected set of elements to
any other group or user. These two groups must be contained in the Group lookup base.
Prerequisites
You must have a working LDAP service on your infrastructure.
Procedure
1 Log in to the Orchestrator configuration interface as vmware.
2 Click LDAP.
3 Specify the primary and secondary LDAP hosts, the lookup port of the LDAP server, the root element,
and the browsing credentials.
4 Define the User lookup base.
This is the LDAP container (the top-level domain name or organizational unit) where Orchestrator
searches for potential users.
a Click Search and type the top-level domain name or organizational unit.
Searching for company returns dc=company,dc=org and other common names containing the search
term. If you type dc=company,dc=org as a search term, no results are found.
b Click the LDAP connection string for the discovered branch to insert it in the User lookup base text
box.
If no matches are found, check your LDAP connection string in the main LDAP page.
NOTE You can connect to the Global Catalog Server through port 3268. It issues LDAP referrals that
Orchestrator follows to find the account or group in a subdomain.
5 Define the Group lookup base.
This is the LDAP container where Orchestrator looks up groups.
a Click Search and type the top-level domain name or organizational unit.
b Click the LDAP string for the discovered branch to insert it in the Group lookup base text box.
6 Define the vCO Admin group.
This must be an LDAP group (like Domain Users) to which you grant administrative privileges for
Orchestrator.
a Click Search and type the top-level group name.
b Click the LDAP string for the discovered branch to insert it in the vCO Admin group text box.
IMPORTANT In eDirectory installations, only the eDirectory administrator can see users or user groups that
have administration rights. If you are using an eDirectory LDAP server, and you log in to Orchestrator as
a member of the vCO Admin group but you are not the eDirectory administrator, you can create users or
user groups with administration rights, but you cannot see those users. This problem does not apply to
other LDAP servers.
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