OUTLET MANAGED PDU

5.9.8.LDAP Parameters

The Outlet Managed PDU supports LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol,) which allows authentication via the "Active Directory" network Directory Service. When LDAP is enabled and properly configured, command access rights can be granted to new users without the need to define individual new accounts at each Outlet Managed PDU, and existing users can also be removed without the need to delete the account from each Outlet Managed PDU.

This type of authentication also allows administrators to assign users to LDAP groups, and then specify which plugs the members of each group will be allowed to control at each Outlet Managed PDU.

In order to apply the LDAP feature, you must first define User Names and associated Passwords and group membership via your LDAP server, and then access the Outlet Managed PDU command mode to enable and configure the LDAP settings and define port access rights and command access rights for each group that you have specified at the LDAP server.

Notes:

Plug access rights are not defined at the LDAP server. They are defined via the LDAP Group configuration menu on each Outlet Managed PDU and are specific to that Outlet Managed PDU alone.

When LDAP is enabled and properly configured, LDAP authentication will supersede any passwords and access rights that have been defined via the Outlet Managed PDU user directory.

If no LDAP groups are defined on a given Outlet Managed PDU, then access rights will be determined as specified by the "default" LDAP group.

The "default" LDAP group cannot be deleted.

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