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Table Of Contents
- Cloud Director Administrator's Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Getting Started with Cloud Director
- Adding Resources to Cloud Director
- Adding vSphere Resources
- Adding Cloud Resources
- Provider Virtual Datacenters
- Create a Provider Virtual Datacenter
- External Networks
- Add an External Network
- Network Pools
- Add a Network Pool That Is Backed by VLAN IDs
- Add a Network Pool That Is Backed by Cloud Isolated Networks
- Add a Network Pool That Is Backed by vSphere Port Groups
- Set the MTU for a Network Pool Backed by Cloud Isolated Networks
- Creating and Provisioning Organizations
- Creating a Published Catalog
- Managing Cloud Resources
- Managing Provider vDCs
- Enable or Disable a Provider vDC
- Delete a Provider vDC
- Modify a Provider vDC Name and Description
- Enable or Disable a Provider vDC Host
- Prepare or Unprepare a Provider vDC Host
- Upgrade an ESX/ESXi Host Agent for a Provider vDC Host
- Repair a Provider vDC ESX/ESXi Host
- Enable or Disable a Provider vDC Datastore
- Add Storage Capacity to a Provider vDC
- Configure Low Disk Space Warnings for a Provider vDC Datastore
- Send an Email Notification to Provider vDC Users
- Managing Organization vDCs
- Managing External Networks
- Managing Organization Networks
- Creating Organization Networks
- Configuring Network Services
- Reset an Organization Network
- Delete an Organization Network
- View IP Usage for an Organization Network
- Add IP Addresses to an Organization Network IP Pool
- Modify an Organization Network Name and Description
- Modify an Organization Network DNS Settings
- Managing Network Pools
- Managing Cloud Cells
- Managing Provider vDCs
- Managing vSphere Resources
- Managing Organizations
- Enable or Disable an Organization
- Delete an Organization
- Modify an Organization Name
- Modify an Organization Full Name and Description
- Modify Organization LDAP Options
- Modify Organization Catalog Publishing Policy
- Modify Organization Email Preferences
- Modify Organization Lease, Quota, and Limit Settings
- Add a Catalog to an Organization
- Managing Organization Resources
- Managing Organization Users and Groups
- Managing Organization vApps
- Managing System Administrators and Roles
- Add a System Administrator
- Import a System Administrator
- Enable or Disable a System Administrator
- Delete a System Administrator
- Edit System Administrator Profile and Contact Information
- Send an Email Notification to Users
- Delete a System Administrator Who Lost Access to the System
- Import an LDAP Group
- Delete an LDAP Group
- Change an LDAP Group Description
- Roles and Rights
- Create a Role
- Copy a Role
- Edit a Role
- Delete a Role
- Managing System Settings
- Monitoring Cloud Director
- Roles and Rights
- Index
7 (Optional) Type a destination email address to test the SMTP settings and click Test SMTP settings.
8 Click Apply.
Configure System Notification Settings
Cloud Director sends system alert emails when it has important information to report. For example, Cloud
Director sends an alert when a datastore is running out of space. You can configure Cloud Director to send
email alerts to all system administrators or to a specified list of email addresses.
Organizations can use the system notification settings, or use custom notification settings.
Prerequisites
A valid connection to an SMTP server.
Procedure
1 Click the Administration tab and click Email in the left pane.
2 Select the recipients of system alert emails and click Apply.
Configuring the System LDAP Settings
You can configure Cloud Director to create user accounts and authenticate user credentials against an LDAP
server. Instead of manually creating user accounts, you can import LDAP users and groups by pointing the
installation to an LDAP server.
After you connect Cloud Director to an LDAP server, you can import system administrators from the groups
and users in the LDAP directory. You can also use the system LDAP settings to import users and groups to an
organization, or you can specify separate LDAP settings for each organization. An LDAP user cannot log in
to Cloud Director until you import them to the system or an organization.
When an imported LDAP user logs in to Cloud Director, Cloud Director checks the credentials of the user
against the LDAP directory. If the credentials are accepted, Cloud Director creates a user account and logs the
user in to the system.
Cloud Director cannot modify the information in your LDAP directory. You can add, delete, or modify LDAP
users or groups only in the LDAP directory itself.
You can control how often Cloud Director synchronizes user and group information with the LDAP directory.
LDAP Support
Cloud Director supports various combinations of operating system, LDAP server, and authentication method.
Table 9-2 displays a list of what Cloud Director supports.
Table 9-2. Supported Combinations of Operating System, LDAP Server, and Authentication Method
Operating System LDAP Server Authentication Method
Windows 2003 Active Directory Simple
Windows 2003 Active Directory Simple SSL
Windows 2003 Active Directory Kerberos
Windows 2003 Active Directory Kerberos SSL
Windows 2008 Active Directory Simple
Windows 7 (2008 R2) Active Directory Simple
Windows 7 (2008 R2) Active Directory Simple SSL
Windows 7 (2008 R2) Active Directory Kerberos
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