Configure the Connection to the LDAP Server

重要: You must be a Company Administrator or an Account Owner to perform these actions.

To configure LDAP authentication, navigate to Settings > Administration > Authentication Provider > LDAP.

Use the following paged results configuration if the user or group query you need to use returns more entries than the LDAP server permits:

• Enable Paging: Check this option to have the Controller Tenant request paged results from the server when submitting user or group queries.
• Page Size: Enter the number of entries per round-trip from the Controller Tenant to the LDAP server. The default is 500.

The page size should equal the total number of entries to be returned divided by the tolerable number of round trips between the LDAP server and the Controller Tenant. For example, if you expect to receive 1200 results in a query and you can tolerate a maximum of two round trips, set the page size to 600 (1200/2). See Using Paged Results for Large Result Sets.

Configure the LDAP connection settings:

• Host: Address of the LDAP server. Required.
• Port: Port on which the LDAP server listens. The default is 636 for an SSL connection and 389 if not using SSL. Required.
• Use SSL: Enabled by default to use a secure connection to the LDAP server. Clear if not using SSL.
• Enable Referrals: Enabled by default to support LDAP referrals. A referral is when an LDAP server forwards an LDAP client request to another LDAP server. Each referral event is referred to as a hop.
• Maximum Referral Hops: The maximum number of referrals that Splunk AppDynamics follows in a sequence of referrals. The default is five.
• Bind DN: Distinguished Name of the user on the LDAP Server on whose behalf the Splunk AppDynamics application searches. Required.
• Password: Password of the user on the LDAP server. Required.

Configure Users

In the LDAP Configuration page, configure information to find LDAP users:

• Base DN: Location in the LDAP tree to begin recursively searching for users. Required.
• Filter: Optional LDAP search string that filters the items matched from the base DN. See RFC2254for information about LDAP search filters.
• Login Attribute: The LDAP field that corresponds to the username users will enter when logging in to the Splunk AppDynamics UI. The default is uid . For Active Directory, this would typically be AMAccountName .
• Display Name Attribute: The LDAP field to use as the user's display name.
• Group Membership Attribute: Optional user group membership field. Recommended for faster retrieval.
• Email Attribute : Optional user email address.

Select Test Query to check the connection. If successful, a screen displays the first few users returned by the query. The test does not return the entire result set if the result set is large.

Configure Groups

Optionally, you can map LDAP groups to user roles in the

• Splunk AppDynamics

Controller Tenant. To do this, you must set up the LDAP query that returns the LDAP groups to map:

• Base DN: Location in the LDAP tree to begin recursively searching for groups. Required.
• Enable Nested Groups: Option to include nested LDAP groups to a depth of 10.
• Filter: Optional LDAP search string that filters the items matched from the base DN. See RFC2254 for information about LDAP search filters.
• Name Attribute: The LDAP field that contains the name of the group. Default is cn . Required.
• Description Attribute: The LDAP field that contains a description of the group. Optional.
• User Membership Attribute: Identifies members of the groups. Optional.
• Referenced User Attribute: Optional child attribute of the User Membership Attribute. Disabled if the parent is empty. Identifies the property of the user that the user membership attribute contains.

Select Test Query to check the connection. If successful, the first few groups returned by the query are shown.

You can now assign permissions in the Splunk AppDynamics Controller Tenant to users or groups.

Assign Splunk AppDynamics Permissions to an LDAP User

1. Navigate to Settings > Administration.
2. Click Users. If LDAP is enabled and correctly configured, the Splunk AppDynamics Controller Tenant fetches the user names from the LDAP server.
3. Select the name of the user to whom you want to assign permissions.
4. Add or delete the Roles that you want to assign to this user. You can assign multiple roles to a user.
5. Click Save.

Assign Splunk AppDynamics Permissions to an LDAP Group

LDAP Group configuration is optional.

1. Navigate toSettings > Administration.
2. Click Groups. If LDAP is enabled and correctly configured, Splunk AppDynamics fetches the group names in LDAP.
3. Select the name of the group to which you want to assign permissions.
4. Add or delete the Roles that you want to assign to this group. You can assign multiple roles to a group.
5. Click Save.