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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
3 Type the name of a user in the LDAP directory and click Test.
4 Review the attribute mapping and click OK.
What to do next
You can customize LDAP user and group attributes based on the results of the test.
Customize LDAP User and Group Attributes
LDAP attributes provide Cloud Director with details about how user and group information is defined in the
LDAP directory. Cloud Director maps the information to its own database. Modify the syntax for user and
group attributes to match your LDAP directory.
Prerequisites
Verify that you have an LDAP connection
Procedure
1 Click the Administration tab and click LDAP in the left pane.
2 Modify the user and group attributes and click Apply.
Synchronize Cloud Director with the LDAP Server
Cloud Director automatically synchronizes its user and group information with the LDAP server on a regular
basis. You can also manually synchronize with the LDAP server at any time.
For automatic synchronization, you can specify how often and when to synchronize. See “Modify General
System Settings,” on page 83.
Prerequisites
Verify that you have a valid LDAP connection.
Procedure
1 Click the Administration tab and click LDAP in the left pane.
2 Click Synchronize LDAP.
Customize the Cloud Director Client UI
You can customize the branding of the Cloud Director client UI and some of the links that appear on the Cloud
Director Home login screen.
For a sample .css template with information about the styles that Cloud Director supports for custom themes,
see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026050.
Procedure
1 Click the Administration tab and click Branding in the left pane.
2 Type a company name.
This name appears in the title bar for system administrators and in the footer for all users.
3 To select a custom logo, click Browse, select a file, and click Open.
The logo appears in the title bar for all users. The file must be 48-by-48 pixels and in the PNG, JPEG, or
GIF format.
4 To select a custom theme, click Browse, select a .css file, and click Open.
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