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  2. NetBackup™ Flex Scale Administrator's Guide
  3. NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management
  4. User management
  5. Configuring AD/LDAP servers for NetBackup services
NetBackup™ Flex Scale Administrator's Guide

Configuring AD/LDAP servers for NetBackup services

You can configure AD/LDAP servers for using the NetBackup services from the NetBackup Flex Scale GUI. You can configure only one AD/LDAP server at a time but you can add multiple AD/LDAP servers to the NetBackup Flex Scale cluster.

To configure AD/LDAP servers for NetBackup services using GUI

  1. Go to the Appliance GUI > Settings > Directory Services management tab. Click Configure.
  2. Select Manage NetBackup services.

    Provide the AD/LDAP server details. Click Save.

    Bind DN/LDAP administrator is the domain name of the administrative user or any user that has search permission to the user container, or user subtree as specified by UserBaseDN.

  3. Once the AD/LDAP server configuration operation is successful, the AD/LDAP server(s) appears in the list with usage as NetBackup services.

You can perform a test connection to validate the AD/LDAP configuration. On the same page, there is an option to remove the AD/LDAP configuration.

Note:

In a NetBackup Flex Scale deployment with both primary and media servers, role assignment for AD/LDAP users should be done from the NetBackup web UI. For more details, see the NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide on SORT.

You can also use RESTful APIs to configure AD/LDAP servers for NetBackup services.

To configure AD/LDAP servers for NetBackup services using RESTful APIs

  1. Configure an AD/LDAP server to the cluster with AD/LDAP server details as payload.
    POST /api/appliance/v1.0/settings/ldap
  2. Test the configured server's connections on the cluster with AD/LDAP server domain name and password as payload.
    POST /api/appliance/v1.0/settings/ldap/{server}/test
  3. Get the successfully configured AD/LDAP server domain names on the cluster.
    GET /api/appliance/v1.0/settings/ldap
  4. Get the server information such as whether, the server is AD/LDAP, BIND DN, and port with AD/LDAP server domain name as payload.
    GET /api/appliance/v1.0/settings/ldap/{server}
  5. Delete, remove or unconfigure the configured AD/LDAP servers from the cluster with AD/LDAP server domain name as payload.
    Delete /api/appliance/v1.0/settings/ldap/{server}

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