Ldap ssl certificates, Enabling ssl on a domain controller – Dell KVM 2321DS User Manual

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LDAP Feature for the Remote Console Switch

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LDAP SSL Certificates

All LDAP protocol exchanges (between a Remote Console Switch and Active

Directory servers) are secured by SSL. When the LDAP protocol is being

protected by SSL, it is referred to as LDAPS (Lightweight Directory Access

Protocol over SSL). Each LDAPS connection begins with a protocol

handshake that triggers a security certificate transmission from the

responding Active Directory server to the Remote Console Switch. Once

received, the Remote Console Switch is responsible for verifying the

certificate. In order to verify the certificate, the appliance must be configured

with a copy of the root Certification Authority's (CA) certificate. Before this

can be done, the certificate must first be generated.

Enabling SSL on a Domain Controller

If you plan to use Microsoft Enterprise Root CA to automatically assign all

your domain controllers SSL certificate, you must perform the following steps

to enable SSL on each domain controller if you have not previously done so.

1 Install a Microsoft Enterprise Root CA on a Domain Controller.

Access Control

Attribute

(Standard

schema set only)

The value of this field specifies which attribute in the LDAP

directory is to be used to contain discretionary access control

information and is only enabled when Standard Schema is

selected.
The Access Control Attribute is chosen from among the

attributes in the LDAP directory object representing the group

whose membership includes both the user and the appliance or

attached computer that you are trying to access.
When using the Standard schema, it is necessary for Group

objects in the Group Container to have an attribute that is

chosen to contain the permission level associated with the

Group. The Access Control Attribute field, available when the

Standard schema is selected, contains the name of the chosen

attribute. The chosen attribute must be capable of storing a

character string value; for example, the default attribute is “info”

which is an attribute accessible via the Active Directory Users

and Computers (ADUC) snap-in. Using ADUC, the value of the

info attribute is set by accessing the “Notes” property of the

Group object.

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