Some information on this page refers to License Statistics v4.18 or newer, which modified settings for selecting user groups you want to import. If you are using an earlier version of License Statistics, please refer to the documentation for previous versions. |
License Statistics lets you connect to an LDAP server to access user accounts (see Automating user account creation using LDAP) and user groups you have defined in an LDAP directory (see Importing LDAP user groups).
Currently, License Statistics has been tested only with Microsoft Active Directory. You may use other LDAP directories, but they are untested with License Statistics at this time. The following instructions for setting up LDAP apply to Active Directory, but may be used as a basis for connecting to other LDAP directories.
To set up connection to LDAP:
A tool such as JXplorer is an excellent way to test your LDAP settings. Using such a tool can save a lot of time when configuring License Statistics, because you can test that credentials and other settings are correct.
You can use JXplorer to copy the DN from LDAP. To do this:
1. Log into JXplorer as shown below.
2. After logging into JXplorer, use the Copy DN option to copy the base DN. When selecting the base DN, it's important to choose the path in the tree that contains the groups you want to see in License Statistics for reporting usage.
3. After copying the base DN, you can simply paste the string into License Statistic's Base DN field instead of typing it.
To learn more about LDAP, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDAP.