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Import User Accounts from Active Directory into LDAP Security Domains

Import user accounts from Active Directory into LDAP security domains.

When you enable Kerberos authentication in the domain, Informatica creates an empty LDAP security domain with the same name as the Kerberos realm. You can import user accounts from Active Directory into this LDAP security domain, or you can import the user accounts into a different LDAP security domain.

You use the Administrator tool to import the user accounts that use Kerberos authentication from Active Directory into an LDAP security domain.

To configure Kerberos cross realm authentication, connect to the Active Directory global catalog. When you connect to the global catalog, you import users from the Active Directory server used by each Kerberos realm.

Start the domain and all Informatica services.

In the Administrator tool, click the

Security

tab.

Click the

Actions

menu and select

LDAP Configuration

In the

LDAP Configuration

dialog box, click the

LDAP Connectivity

tab.

Configure the connection properties for the Active Directory.

You might need to consult the LDAP administrator to get the information needed to connect to the LDAP server.

The following table describes the LDAP server configuration properties:

Property	Description
Server name	Host name or IP address of the Active Directory server. To configure Kerberos cross realm authentication, connect to the Active Directory global catalog host. Specify the fully qualified hostname. For example: host.company.local
Port	Listening port for the Active Directory server. The default is 389. The default SSL port is 636. To configure Kerberos cross realm authentication, connect to the Active Directory global catalog port. The default is 3268. The default SSL port is 3269.
LDAP Directory Service	Select Microsoft Active Directory Service .
Name	Specify the bind user account you created in Active Directory to synchronize accounts in Active Directory with the LDAP security domain. Because the domain is enabled for Kerberos authentication, you do not have the option to provide a password for the account. If the domain uses Kerberos cross realm authentication, include the name of the realm to which the Active Directory principal database belongs.
Use SSL Certificate	Indicates that the LDAP server uses the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Trust LDAP Certificate	Determines whether the Service Manager can trust the SSL certificate of the LDAP server. If selected, the Service Manager connects to the LDAP server without verifying the SSL certificate. If not selected, the Service Manager verifies that the SSL certificate is signed by a certificate authority before connecting to the LDAP server.
Not Case Sensitive	Indicates that the Service Manager must ignore case sensitivity for distinguished name attributes when assigning users to groups.
Group Membership Attribute	Name of the attribute that contains group membership information for a user. This is the attribute in the LDAP group object that contains the DNs of the users or groups who are members of a group. For example, member or memberof .
Maximum Size	Maximum number of user accounts to import into a security domain. For example, if the value is set to 100, you can import a maximum of 100 user accounts into the security domain. If the number of user to be imported exceeds the value for this property, the Service Manager generates an error message and does not import any user. Set this property to a higher value if you have many users to import. Default is 1000.

In the

LDAP Configuration

dialog box, click the

Security Domains

tab.

Click

Add

The following table describes the filter properties that you can set for a security domain:

Property	Description
Security Domain	Name of the LDAP security domain into which you want to import user accounts from Active Directory.
User search base	Distinguished name (DN) of the entry that serves as the starting point to search for user names in Active Directory. The search finds an object in the directory according to the path in the distinguished name of the object. For example, to search the USERS container that contains Informatica user accounts in the example.com Windows domain, specify CN=USERS,DC=EXAMPLE,DC=COM.
User filter	An LDAP query string that specifies the criteria for searching for users in the directory service. The filter can specify attribute types, assertion values, and matching criteria. For example: (objectclass=*) searches all objects. (&(objectClass=user)(!(cn=susan))) searches all user objects except “susan”. For more information about search filters, see the documentation for the LDAP directory service.
Group search base	Distinguished name (DN) of the entry that serves as the starting point to search for group names in the LDAP directory service.
Group filter	An LDAP query string that specifies the criteria for searching for groups in the directory service.

The Security Domains dialog box shows the details for the COMPANY.COM LDAP security domain.

Click

Synchronize Now

The Service Manager synchronizes the users in all the LDAP security domains with the users in the LDAP directory service. The time it takes for the synchronization process to complete depends on the number of users and groups to be imported.

Click

to save the LDAP security domain.

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