VSOM & LDAP Intigration

Hellow Friends,

Hear i will show you how to intigrate LDAP users in to VSOM server.
there are two configuration steps one is LDAP connection String and second one is USER Creation in VSOM server.

these steps are very simple to configure but one most intresting part is that when you create AD USER in VSOM then user name should be CN ratherAD logon account.

How I configured it to work was:

- From the Video Surveillance Management Console select "Operations Manager" on the left side.

- Change the Authentication Type from Application Database to LDAP Server.

- Put in the hostname of the LDAP server. (I just put the IP address of my AD server)

- Enter the host port.(I just put in 389)

- For the Relative Distinguished Name use something like
"CN=%username%,OU=VSOM,OU=Users"

- cn=%username% <- uses the username from the loging page

- OU=VSOM,OU=Users <- this needs to change to the OU where your VSOM users are.

- Domain Controllers needs to be something like "DC=cisco,DC=com" to match your domain

- Make sure you click on the Update button


Back in VSOM:

- Go to the Users page

- then when you add or edit a user you have the option to select "Local Password" or "LDAP"

- Enter the username to match the AD cn which in my case was "Andrew Osborne"

- Select LDAP

- Enter the first name and last name. These are locally significant.

- Select any other options you need.

- finally select submit.

After doing this I was able to log in using the same password that I have in AD but not the same username. If anyone has a different method to get VSOM to authenticate using the same username as in AD that would be great.

For more information or User Manual please follow below link :
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/physical_security/video_surveillance/network/operations_manager/4_0/vsom.pdf