Creating a user account for an LDAP group

With IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, you can use a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server to manage users. When you create an LDAP user account, you can add the user account to a user group.

Before you begin

Complete the following tasks:
  • Ensure that you have registered an LDAP provider with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. To register an LDAP provider, follow the instructions in Adding an LDAP server.
  • If you want to use custom roles and resource groups, ensure that the roles or groups are available. For instructions about creating roles and groups, see Creating a role and Creating a resource group.

Procedure

To create a user account for an LDAP group, complete the following steps:

  1. In the navigation pane, click Accounts > User.
  2. Click Add User. The Add User pane is displayed.
  3. Click Select the type of user or group you want to add > LDAP Group.
  4. In the Group Name field of the Select LDAP Group section, specify the LDAP group by taking one of the following actions:
    • Enter the LDAP group name.
    • Search for the LDAP group name by entering partial text, an asterisk (*) as a single wildcard character, or a question mark (?) for pattern matching. To view all LDAP groups, click the View All button.
    • Optionally, a relative distinguished name (RDN) can be provided by filling out the Group RDN field.
  5. LDAP Groups are displayed in LDAP Groups table. Select an LDAP Group.
  6. In the Assign Role section, select one or more roles for the user.
  7. In the Permission Groups section, review the permissions and resources that are available to the user, and then click Continue.
  8. In the Add Users - Assign Resources section, assign one or more resource groups to the user, and then click Add resources.
    The resource groups are added to the Selected Resources section.
  9. Click Create user.

Results

The user account is displayed in the users table. Optionally, to view available roles, permissions, and resource groups, select a user in the users table.