Discovering and assigning attributes for ldap importing

Discovering and assigning attributes is an important part of successfully importing personal records.

Perform the following steps:

From the main menu, select Remote Devices > Remote Drivers, double-click Ldap Network, click the Ldap Server tab and double-click the Ldap Server row in the table.
The Ldap Server view opens.
Click on Attributes tab.
LDAP Attribute Manager view opens.
To discover attributes from the LDAP Server, click the Discover button ().
The Discover window opens.
The Object Class identifies the group of personnel records to import from the LDAP server.
To manage the Object Class List, click add (button), edit (button) or delete (button).
To discover, select the object class attribute (for example, "organizationalPerson" or "User") and click Ok.
The discovered attributes are displayed in Discovered pane.
Select a discovered attribute and click Add (button) ().
The Add window opens.
To add the attribute to database pane, fill the following details and click OK:
1. Display Name cannot be changed. This remains as it is in LDAP server.
2. Data Type provides two options String or Binary.
3. Mapped O R D selects Person or PersonInfo or Badge. Last Name is the mandatory attribute.
4. Is R D N selects true or false from the drop-down list.

This adds the discovered attributes to the database.