LDAP Credentials

This page is used to configure LDAP Credentials for WhatsUp Gold.

• LDAP Server. Enter the hostname or IP address of your LDAP server. If you are authenticating to an Active Directory domain, the LDAP server for your domain is a DC (domain controller).
• LDAP Port. Enter the number of the port your LDAP server monitors for queries. For most LDAP configurations, the default value of 389 will work.
• Authorize DN. Enter the path to the container which holds the users you want to use as WhatsUp web interface users. See examples below.
• Secure. Select if you want LDAP queries to be encrypted using SSL. Your LDAP server must be configured to accept SSL connections for this option to work.
• Test. Select to bring up the Test dialog. The test dialog allows you to verify that your LDAP credentials are setup correctly.

Note: In order for LDAP credentials to work, you must configure Web users for those users that you would like to grant access to. These users must match the LDAP credentials you have configured.

Authorize DN examples

Active Directory

1. If you are using Active Directory, you can authenticate any user on the domain (after setting up a WhatsUp Gold Web user which matches the Active Directory login name for that Active Directory user) using the following format. As an example, for the domain IPSWITCH, you would use:

   IPSWITCH\%s

2. If you're using Active Directory, but only want to allow users from a specific container to logon, use the following format. As an example, if your user, Bandy Wendy, is in the container, \OU=Sites\OU=KUL\OU=Non-Developers, on the bigbluepuddle.org domain, you would use:

   CN=%s,OU=Non- Developers,OU=KUL,OU=Sites,DC=bigbluepuddle,DC=org

   These DN strings use the Active Directory login name as the WhatsUp Gold user name.

Standard LDAP Server

If you're not using Active Directory, you will need to specify the LDAP attribute and path to the container which holds the user objects you want to use. An example could be,

CN=%s,OU=Users,o=yourdomain.net

Note: If you are unsure which LDAP attribute to use, or which path to specify, then contact your LDAP administrator or LDAP vendor.

For the above examples: The %s variable is replaced by the username/password information entered from their respective fields.