New (and Edit) LDAP server window

This window contains the properties associated with each LDAP server. You use this window when you are setting up your system personnel database for the first time.
Figure 396.   New LDAP server window
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You access this window when you click the New button (Image) on the LdapServers tab. You access this view by clicking System Setup > Remote Devices > Remote Drivers, followed by double-clicking the LdapNetwork driver row in the table and clicking the LdapServers tab.

To edit the properties for an existing server, you select the server row on the LdapServers tab and click the Edit button (Image).

Property Value Description
Display Name text Defines the name of the server.
Status read-only Reports "Issueable" until the badge is assigned, then it may be Active, Disabled, Lost or Unknown.
Connection Host URL Defines the URL or IP address platform on which the Ldap Server is running. The location may be on the same computer or elsewhere available on an intranet or the Internet.
Connection Port number (defaults to 636) Defines the port over which the computer communicates with the server.
Enable Connection TLS true or false (default) Selects secure transmission and identity verification using the TLS protocol. Do not change this value unless you are confident of what you are doing. Changing this value could open the system to hackers.
Connection User text Defines the LDAP server attributes for the system administrator.

uid=admin is an example of the distinguished name for this user.

dc=com is the user parent class.

Connection Password text Defines the password the LDAP server requires for this user.
Enable connection Pooling true (default) or false Enables and disables the use of a connection pool. To speed processing, LDAP servers maintain a pool of connections. A request from the system that uses an existing connection saves valuable processing time, which improves system performance. Do not change the default (true = enabled) setting unless you know what you are doing.
Initial Size number (defaults to 0) Defines the number of pooling connections.
Max Size number (defaults to 10) Defines the maximum number of connections to the LDAP server that the system supports concurrently.
Pref Size number (defaults to 0) Defines the preferred number of connections to the LDAP server that the system supports concurrently.
Connection Timeout milliseconds Defines the number of milliseconds that an idle connection may remain in the pool without being closed and removed from the pool.
Search Scope drop-down list Select the search scope from the drop-down list. These are the available options,Object Scope searches on the base DN only (compare).One Level Scope searches the direct children of the base DN. Subtree Scope searches the base DN an all its descendants.
Polling Interval plus or minus hours minutes and seconds Defines how frequently to poll the LDAP server.