Using LDAP services

About LDAP support in Data ONTAP  

Data ONTAP supports LDAP for authentication, file access authorization, and user lookup and mapping services between NFS and CIFS.

About using LDAP  

An LDAP server enables you to centrally maintain user information. As a result, you do not have to maintain separate configuration files for each NetApp storage system that is on your network. If you have several storage systems on your network, maintaining user information centrally saves you from updating these files on each storage system every time you add or delete a user or a group.

If you store your user database on an LDAP server, you can configure your storage system to look up user information in the LDAP database.

LDAP servers supported  

Data ONTAP LDAP support includes the following types of LDAP servers:

• Netscape®
• iPlanet^TM
• OpenLDAP
• Windows® Active Directory
• Novell® NDS

LDAP signing  

Data ONTAP supports connections to LDAP servers that require signing. LDAP signing support is enabled by default.

Detailed information  

This section discusses the following topics:

• Configuring LDAP services
• Managing client authentication and authorization
• Managing LDAP user-mapping services
• Managing Active Directory LDAP servers
• Managing LDAP schema

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