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Installation
Reading from an LDAP Server
When you enable and configure LDAP preferences to populate the corporate directory, you specify the hostname, login and query parameters, and the refresh interval for reading data from a preconfigured LDAP server. LG recommends that you use an LDAP server configured with an H.350 compliant schema.
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Unregistered | LDAP preferences are not configured. | |
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Registered | LDAP preferences are configured. The last attempt by the system to contact the LDAP | |
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Unreachable | LDAP preferences are configured, but the LDAP hostname is invalid or the service does | |
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Unauthorized | LDAP preferences are configured, but the username or password is invalid. | |
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Invalid Syntax | LDAP preferences are configured, but the base Distinguished Name (DN) is invalid. | |
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Failed | LDAP preferences are configured, but an unexpected failure occurred. | |
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Configuring Auto Discovery
Auto discovery enables the systems on your network to pass address information to other systems automatically. By default, when a system joins a network, it sends a broadcast packet to the local subnet to announce its presence.
Any system on the local subnet that receives the packet and has Auto Discovery set to Enabled replies by sending address information about itself and a list of IP addresses of other systems that it has discovered.
The system creates an entry in its corporate directory for every system on the local subnet from which it received a response.
It then queries the list of other IP addresses that it received and the IP addresses that are stored in its own Redial list, but only if those addresses are allowed by the filters that you specify in the Auto Discovery Subnets and Auto Discovery Ignored Subnets preferences.
By default, the system replies and sends queries to other systems in the local subnet only.
Configure the Auto Discovery Subnets and Auto Discovery Ignored Subnets preferences to enable the system to discover other systems outside the local subnet and share that information with other systems.
Specify subnet filters (separated by spaces) in the Auto Discovery Subnets preference to identify the subnets to which the LifeSize system can send queries and replies.
By default, the preference is empty; the system sends queries and replies to other systems on the local subnet only.
To exclude subnets from auto discovery, specify subnet filters in the Auto Discovery Ignored Subnets preference. If a destination address does not match one of the filters in the Auto Discovery Subnets preference, or if it matches one of the filters in the Auto Discovery Ignored Subnets preference, then the system does not query or reply to the system at that address.
For example, you can configure the Auto Discovery Subnets preference to include a large subnet and the Auto Discovery Ignored Subnets preference to exclude a subset of the subnet. Consider a network that has several subnets with the IP address 10.* and a slow network connection to devices that have a 10.85.* address. If you enter 10.* in the Auto Discovery Subnets and 10.85.* in the Auto Discovery Ignored Subnets preference, the system queries and replies to all the systems that have a 10.* address, except those that have a 10.85.* address.
If you set Auto Discovery to Disabled, the system does not send a broadcast message to the local subnet and cannot discover or be discovered by other systems.