How to register an LDAP Server on IBM Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP)

Summary

Summary: This article describes how to setup an LDAP Server with SPP to allow user single sign-on access.
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a protocol for accessing a directory, which contains objects related to users, passwords, security groups and computer objects.
• LDAP provides the ability to query against contained object.
(users, passwords, security groups, and computer objects)
• LDAP allows application to authenticate with a central repository to provide users with single sign-on, access.

Supported LDAP Server for SPP configuration:
• SPP supports Windows Domain controllers with LDAP configuration.
• A Windows Domain controller is a promoted windows server running Active Directory Domain Services. (ADDS)
• Active Directory is a database-based system, developed by Microsoft, that provides authentication, security policies and authorizes users and computers in a Windows domain type network.
• Active Directory uses the LDAP protocol.