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Configuration Manager - LDAP

The "LDAP" menu enables the configuration of the LDAP interface for user creation and authentication.

Description

Setting

What does the setting do?

Active

entryDN

Root (DN) of the LDAP subtree in which the search is performed.

identifierAttribute

LDAP attribute that must match the corresponding LMS attribute during identification, in order to identify an object.

objectClass

LDAP object class for the description of data read.

terminateAmbiguousPerson

Defines if a person to be imported will be set to passive when their external identifier in the third-party source is ambiguous.

synchronize

Determines whether all people not imported in the LMS will be switched to passive after importing people from the specified source. true: All users not included in the current import process will automatically be switched to passive.false: The profiles of users not included in the import process will remain unchanged.

importId

The Import ID is used to define a different user import for the same import source.

ignoreUnmappedFields

Determines whether all source fields specified by mapping elements will be expected and imported in the imported file. TRUE: The attributes transferred in the import source for which no mapping is defined will be ignored. FALSE: If an attribute which is transferred with the imported data does not have any mapping defined, an exception will be generated.

reference

Determines whether all source fields specified by mapping elements will be expected and imported in the imported file. TRUE: The mapping elements determine which fields will be imported. Additional attribute entries found in the import file will be ignored. FALSE: Only the attribute entries found in the import file will be imported. Additional attributes specified by mapping elements will be ignored. See also: Ignore Unmapped Fields.

Person import

Scheduled import

Enable LDAP in the import wizard

Determines whether the user can import people from the LDAP profile data source specified via the “Users” import wizard. Ticked/True: The LDAP profile data source will be listed in the selection box for the possible import sources of the import wizard. Unticked/False: The LDAP profile data source specified cannot be selected as an import source in the import wizard.

Implement as user

LDAP Identifier Attribute

Person import protocol

Log file name prefix

Relative upload path

Save as ZIP file

Field separator

Choice between “TAB”, “;”, “:”, “!”

CSV encoding

Available options
ISO-8859-1

UTF-8

LDAP Group Import

Setting

What does the setting do?

Import settings

Configuration of the group import from a LDAP source.

Status

This setting is used to enable/disable the import.

Base Group

Determines the group under which the imported group structure is created.

Preserve import source attribute

Determines whether, in the table PLATFORMGROUPSPECIFICATION, the attribute is_importsource is retained or deleted when saving the user profile.

Import unknown person

Determines whether group members whose user profile has not yet been registered in LMS are imported randomly as part of the group import.

Import group assignment

Determines whether LMS users are assigned to imported groups in line with the affiliations specified in LDAP. Note: This functionality requires correct configuration of the LDAP user import.

Scheduler integration

Configures the automatically scheduled import via the data source specified.

Execution person

Determines under which LMS user account the scheduled import is executed.

Log File Settings

This section contains settings used to define the format and location of the log file produced following group imports using the LDAP interface.

CSV encoding

Determines the character set coding  that LMS uses when creating CSV files for the export of reports.

Logfile name pre-fix

Prefix for log file names.

Relative path

Relative path to the source file. Referenced is the current data directory of the LMS server.

Save as ZIP file

Indicates if the log file is saved as a zip file.

Field separator

Indicates the character string for the field separation in the rows of a CSV file. The character string TAB indentifies the tab character.

Group name

Name of the group.

Group ID

LMS Object ID of the group.

Parent ID

LMS Object ID of the parent group in the structure.

LDAP Search Preferences

Configures the group search in LDAP directory tree.

Entry DN

Root (DN) of the LDAP subtree in which the search is performed.

Identifier Attribute

LDAP attribute that must match the corresponding LMS attribute during identification, in order to identify an object.

Object Class

LDAP object class for the description of data read.

Group Import Attribute Mapping

Determines which LDAP group attribute will be available for use by the corresponding LMS group attribute.

Description Attribute

Determines the name of the LDAP group attribute  which contains the group description.

Member Attribute

Determines the name of the LDAP group attribute whose contents define the group participants. Note: the specified attribute delivers the list of the group participants Distinguished Names (DN).

Name Attribute

Determines the name of the LDAP group attribute which contains the group description name.

Role Attribute

Determines the name of the LDAP group attributes whose content will be assigned to the LMS group attribute role type. Note: For the specified attribute use the values 1 (default) and 2 (Content manager).

Category Attribute

Determines the name of the LDAP group attributes whose content will be assigned to the LMS group attribute group category. Note: For the specified attribute use the values 1 (default), 2 (administration group) and 3 (portal group).

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