During the initial Avaya Aura
®
Web Gateway installation procedure, you can configure only one
LDAP server. If you want to add more LDAP servers, use the web administration portal. For more
information, see “Adding a new enterprise LDAP server” in
Administering the Avaya Aura
®
Web
Gateway
.
Configuring the role search parameters
About this task
This procedure describes how to configure the LDAP role search parameters when Microsoft
Active Directory (AD) is used.
Role search for Avaya Aura
®
Web Gateway users are really about finding the associated “role”
strings for a user in LDAP. For AD, this is about the user group names that a user belongs to.
In Microsoft Active Directory, the DNs of the groups that a user belongs to are stored in the
“memberOf” attribute of a user. The “memberOf” attribute also stores the Exchange mailing lists
that a user belongs to. Conversely, the group objects that the user belongs to contain a “member”
attribute that stores the DNs of all of the users and sub-groups that are members of this group.
Procedure
1. Run the Avaya Aura
®
Web Gateway configuration utility using the
app configure
command.
2. Select
LDAP Configuration
>
Advanced LDAP parameters
.
3. Configure the parameter settings as described in
on page 88.
4. Configure the attributes as described in
on page 90.
LDAP parameter descriptions
Parameter settings
The following table describes the parameter settings according to the search mechanism that you
choose:
Parameter
Search mechanism #1:
Find the user, extract the group DNs from
the “memberOf” attribute, and get the
role strings from each of the group
objects
Search mechanism #2:
Find the groups that the user belongs to
and extract the role string from one of
the attributes
Example
Description
Example
Description
Role Filter
(&(objectClass=user)
(objectCategory=Per
son)(<UID attribute
ID>={0}))
<UID Attribute ID> is
the value of the “UID
Attribute ID”
parameter.
“{0}” is the
placeholder that will
be replaced by the
authenticating user
ID.
(&(objectClass=grou
p)(member={1}))
“{1}” is the
placeholder to be
replaced by the DN
of the user object.
The DN is identified
during the
authentication
process.
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