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8 Click OK.
9
Click the New icon ( ).
10 Create a local user account that you and your architects can later congure for testing blueprints and
catalog access.
Option Input
First Name
test
Last Name
user
Email
Enter an email address or use the placeholder [e-mail].
Username
test_user
Password
VMware1!
11 Click OK.
12 Click the Administrators tab.
13 Enter Rainpole in the Tenant administrators search box and press Enter. Select your Rainpole tenant
admin user.
The tenant administrator role is assigned to your Rainpole tenant admin user.
14 Click Finish.
15 Log out of the console.
You can use the Rainpole tenant admin local user to access the tenant administration seings and congure
your tenant. The test_user account is useful as a shared login for your architects and catalog administrators.
They can congure the account as a basic user and verify blueprint and catalog access and test approval
behaviors.
What to do next
Congure vRealize Automation to authenticate logins against your existing corporate active directory.
Scenario: Connect Your Corporate Active Directory to vRealize Automation for
Rainpole
As a tenant administrator, you want vRealize Automation to authenticate logins against your corporate
active directory. You congure a connection between vRealize Automation and your single domain active
directory over LDAP.
Procedure
1 Navigate to the vRealize Automation console, https://vra01svr01.rainpole.local/vcac.
2 Enter the username Rainpole tenant admin and password VMware1!.
3 Select Administration > Directories Management > Directories.
4 Click Add Directory.
5 Enter your specic Active Directory account seings, and accept the default options.
Option Sample Input
Directory Name
Add the IP address of your active directory domain name.
Sync Connector
vra01svr01.rainpole.local
Base DN
Enter the Distinguished Name (DN) of the starting point for directory
server searches. For example, cn=users,dc=rainpole,dc=local.
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