Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions - Second Edition

Active Directory integration

We will now configure the AD/LDAP authentication integration for UCS. We will integrate UCS Manager to the Microsoft Active Directory domain controller. On the AD side, appropriate user groups should be created that can be used to provide mapping to UCS roles that provide privileges to the AD authenticated users accordingly.

Perform the following procedure to enable Active Directory authentication:

1. Log in to UCS Manager.
2. Click on the Admin tab in the navigation pane.
3. On the Admin tab, click on User Management to expand its content.
4. Click on LDAP in the navigation pane and click on Create LDAP Provider in the work pane:

5. In the pop-up window, provide the following AD configuration details:
   1.  Provide a DNS hostname ...