Hello there. Today you will learn how to create a new connection to a LDAP server. For this, you need to go to “Administration”, then to “Data Connector Wizard”,
give it a new, unique name, and define its ID and URL – it’s important to check the connection type - eDirectory or Active Directory.
Also, set a username and password, then click “Test”. If the button becomes green, then this means that all settings are checked, and a connection can be established.
Check the connection type one more time and click “Create New Data Connector”.
Now you see that your actions were successful. Click “Reload App”.
Okay, your new connection is added to the submenu “Data Collection”. This is a snapshot service.
Here you find a path – “The LDAP Server URL”, “The LDAP Service account name”, password, path to keystore – “Keystore file name” which contains the public certificate for the LDAP secure connection and other settings.
Now you need to start the Snapshot Service.
Sometimes depending on the settings in eDirectory, you can get an error – “Connection or outbound has closed”. This happens because some versions of IDM can send you a certificate not with FQDN but with an IP address instead.
In this case, you must change FQDN to IP. It can happen if the IP address is set in “Data Connector Wizard”.
Now save and start the service again.
The service is actively running. Here you receive a root object, and this means that the service is started successfully.
After the service is started, you can go to the Time Machine. Here on top select your connection.
It’s to see that service works and when it finishes, you will get information about the snapshot such as: “Start Time”, “Finish Time”, “Duration”, “Total Objects”, “Average Object Size” and the size of data from a snapshot.
A list of snapshots can also be seen in the History Browser. Okay, that’s all for the snapshot services.
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