Establish a connection to the Storage Authentication Server

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This topic provides instructions for establishing a connection to the Storage Authentication Server for the System Storage Productivity Center.

Note: The following topic has been added to the TS7700 Service Information Center for reference only. LDAP setup and administration is a customer task. Contact the customer to obtain an LDAP user ID and password.
To establish a connection to the Storage Authentication Server, you must use an integrated portal and the TS7700 Management Interface.
Note: If Https is used, the TLS version must be the same at both the TS7700 and the Cloud Server in order to avoid problem with the SSL Certificate Retrieve.
  1. Set up a System Storage Productivity Center by configuring the TotalStorage Productivity Center to communicate with an external Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) repository.
    Note: Refer to the topic Changing the user authentication method, available from the PUBLIB link in the Related information section for configuring instructions.
  2. Use the Add Storage Authentication Service policy panel of the TS7700 Management Interface to create a new storage authentication service policy. On this panel:
    1. Enter a unique policy name
    2. Enter an address for the TotalStorage Productivity Center
    3. Retrieve the certificate
    4. Enter an administrative user name and password for the TotalStorage Productivity Center
    5. Click OK
  3. Use the Modify Storage Authentication Service policy panel of the TS7700 Management Interface to modify the new storage authentication service policy.

    Add users and groups from the LDAP server that you want to give permission to access the management interface.

  4. Use the Assign authentication policy panel of the TS7700 Management Interface to assign the new authentication policy to one or more clusters.

    Enter the user name and password for the user(s) assigned to the administrator role by the new policy.