Configuring external authentication
To use Orchestrator to its fullest possibilities we should configure it with an external authentication.
Getting ready
We need an up and running Orchestrator and access to the Control Center (root account). Also see, the recipe Deploying the Orchestrator appliance in this chapter.
You should have an AD/LDAP group for your Orchestrator Administrators with at least one user in it. I will use the AD group vroAdmins with its member vroAdmin and my domain is called mylab.local. My PSC/SSO is on vcenter.mylab.local.
If you are using AD/LDAP, then you need only to know the LDAP path to your vroAdmin user and group.
If you are using SSO or vSphere(PSC), you should either have configured SSO to use AD or created a local SSO ...
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