Appendix A Personal Assistant Administration Page Reference

Corporate Directory Settings

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System > Corporate Directory Settings Page (continued)

 

 

 

Field

 

Considerations

 

 

Directory Search Base DN for

Enter the Distinguished Name (DN) for the user node of your corporate directory.

Users

 

• For Cisco CallManager DC Directory—Enter ou=<Root user DC Directory node>,

 

 

 

 

o=<Fully qualified domain name>. For example: ou=Users,o=Domain.com.

 

 

• For Active Directory—Enter a comma-separated list of each component of the

 

 

distinguished name for the user node in Active Directory. For example: if the node is

 

 

UserNode1.Subdomain1.Domain.com, enter dc=UserNode1,dc=Subdomain1,

 

 

dc=Domain,dc=com.

 

 

• For Netscape Directory—Enter ou=People,o=<Fully qualified domain name>. For

 

 

example: ou=People,o=UserNode1.Subdomain1.Domain.com.

 

 

Directory Search Filter

Enter an LDAP expression for restricting the entries retrieved. For example, you can limit

 

 

the Personal Assistant directory lookups to a specific location, thus allowing users to use

 

 

name dialing for employees only in the selected area. If your directory includes a “location”

 

 

field, and “newyork” is a valid location in your directory, a directory search filter for limiting

 

 

searches to New York would be “(location=newyork).”

 

 

• For Cisco CallManager DC Directory—If the user search base is set to the root node or

 

 

domain, append !(description=ciscoPABUser) to the Directory Search Filter. For

 

 

example, (&(objectclass=person)(!(description=ciscoPABUser))). Otherwise, Personal

 

 

Assistant will be unable to distinguish between users in the corporate directory and users

 

 

in the address book.

 

 

• For Active Directory—If your message store is Exchange 5.5, enter

 

 

(&(objectclass=user)(objectcategory=Person)). Otherwise, enter

 

 

(&(objectclass=user)(objectcategory=Person)(legacyExchangeDN=*)).

 

 

• For Netscape Directory—Enter (objectClass=person).

 

 

Note that the instructions above are valid for the typical configuration. The expression you

 

 

enter might need additional search-filter parameters, depending on how your directory is

 

 

structured. The expression must be valid for the directory you are using. If you do not know

 

 

what to enter, refer to the documentation supplied with the directory, or ask your directory

 

 

administrator for information on valid LDAP expressions for your corporate directory.

 

 

Click Test for Personal Assistant to validate the search filter.

 

 

 

Use LDIF File

 

Check this check box for Personal Assistant to read corporate directory information from an

 

 

LDIF file that you specify, both when the system refreshes and when it restarts.

 

 

By default, Personal Assistant uses an LDAP query.

 

 

Uncheck this check box if you are not using an LDIF file.

 

 

LDIF File Location

Enter the UNC path for the file that you created in the “Using an LDIF File” section on

 

 

page 2-7.

 

 

For example, enter \\Paserver\ldif\paldifdata.ldif.

 

 

Click Test for Personal Assistant to validate the file.

 

 

 

Limit Page Size

 

If the LDAP directory has a restriction on the number of results returned per query, check

(for systems querying Active

this check box for Personal Assistant to use the number of results per page that you specify.

 

Directory only)

 

Otherwise, uncheck this check box.

 

 

 

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