Enable federated security
You can use the Configuration Wizard to configure WebSphere Portal to use a federated LDAP for security. Use the following information to get familiar with the information you must provide in the wizard and the configuration procedure that it generates.
Configuration Wizard
The primary Configuration Wizard options are based on your target configuration topology, such as a stand-alone server or a cluster. The federated security option is included with both Set Up a Stand-alone Server and Set Up a Cluster. For the stand-alone server topology, run the federated security option after database transfer. For the cluster topology, run the federated security option after you create the cluster, but before you add more nodes.
Validation
For this configuration option, the wizard can connect to your LDAP directory and validate the information that you enter in the wizard. By default, validation is enabled. On the Security Settings panel, you can choose to turn validation on or off by selecting Yes or No to the Validate LDAP user registry entries option. Select No if you know that your parameters are correct and that your LDAP server is unavailable at the time of creating your instructions.
Two types of validation are performed when you select to validate settings including field syntax and LDAP connection validations. The syntax validation, for example, checks that you entered a valid port number in the range of 1 - 65535. The connection validation, for example, checks that a connection can be made to your LDAP server.
Enabling validation is recommended because it can prevent a possible failure by validating your entries in the wizard before you run the configuration. The LDAP settings including the Repository ID, Host name, Port, Bind DN, Bind password, Base DN, Administrator group DN, Administrator DN, and Administrator password are all validated before the wizard creates your instructions to run the configuration. Review the following worksheet section to see which fields are required based on your selections in the wizard.