AIX stand-alone: Enable referrals for your LDAP user registry

Referrals redirect object requests from one LDAP server to another when objects do not exist or cannot be located in a particular directory tree. You should enable referrals if the environment has more than one user registry existing on multiple servers or domains.

Prerequisites

AIX stand-alone: Prepare user registries

AIX stand-alone: Choose the user registry model

AIX stand-alone: Adapt the attribute configuration

AIX stand-alone: Configure Portal to use dynamic groups

Configure the portal to use LDAP referrals

1. Run backupConfig

2. Open a UNIX System Services (USS) command prompt.
   

3. Edit wkplc.properties

4. Specify values for the following parameters:
   • et.ldap.id=ID_of_your_LDAP_server
   • et.ldap.host=hostname_of_your_LDAP_server
   • et.ldap.referral=follow

5. Save and close wkplc.properties.

6. Create an LDAP entity type:
   ./ConfigEngine.sh wp-update-et-ldap -DWasPassword=foo

7. Stop and restart servers, dmgrs, and node agents.

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