Plan for realm support
A realm is a collection of users from one or more LDAP trees that forms a coherent user population within IBM WebSphere Portal.
Realms are mapped to virtual portals, allowing one to define areas that only a limited set of users can access. For example, the virtual portals...
- host/wps/portal/japan
- host/wps/portal/canada
- host/wps/portal/brazil
..would be accessible only to residents of each respective country.
You can create a realm that combines users from your various user registries; for example, your realm can span three LDAP user registries and a database user registry:
- LDAP1
- LDAP2
- LDAP3
- DB1
Distinguished names must be unique for a realm over all registries. For example, if...
uid=wpsadmin,o=yourco...exists in LDAP1, it must not exist in LDAP2, LDAP3, or DB1.
The shortname, for example wpsadmin, should be unique for a realm over all registries.
The base distinguished names for all registries used within a realm must not overlap. For example, if LDAP1 is...
c=us,o=yourco...LDAP2 should not be...
o=yourco
Do not leave the base entry blank for any of the registries used within a realm.
The user must exist in a user registry and not within the property extension configuration.
Parent topic
Planning your user registry