In Oracle VDI Manager, select Settings in the navigation tree on the left, and then select Company. The All Companies page is displayed, as shown in Figure 4.1.
In the Companies table, click the New button. The New Company wizard is displayed in a new window. Click the Next button to move though the various steps of the wizard. On the Choose User Directory step, select LDAP, as shown in Figure 4.2.
On the Specify Connection step, select a Security Level and enter the required authentication details as follows:
Host and Port: The fully‑qualified DNS name or IP address of the directory. If the directory uses a non‑standard port, change the port number.
Base DN: The distinguished name (DN) of an LDAP object to use as the search base, for example cn=Users,dc=example,dc=com.
User DN: The DN of a user that has read permissions in the user directory, for example cn=Administrator,cn=Users,dc=example,dc=com.
Most corporate user directories are configured for secure authentication, which uses SSL for encryption, and requires a user name and password. Simple authentication requires just a user name and password. Anonymous authentication requires no credentials.
Figure 4.3 shows a completed example for secure authentication.
Click Next. If you selected secure authentication as the security level, the Verify Certificate step is displayed. Check that the directory's SSL certificate details are correct and click Next. On the Define Company step, enter the name of your company and the company's email domain name(s) in the Name and E-Mail Domain Name fields. Figure 4.4 shows a completed example.
On the Review step, check your configuration and then click Finish to create the company. The wizard is closed, a message is displayed on the All Companies page to confirm that the company has been created, and the new company is now listed in the Companies table, as shown in Figure 4.5.
The All Companies page provides you with a summary of the company, and most importantly, reports the status of the connection to the user directory. You can change the company configuration at any time. In the Companies table, click the company name in the Name column and then select the LDAP tab, see Figure 4.6.
On this tab, you can change your LDAP configuration, for example by changing the security level or adding more LDAP servers for failover purposes. To access the settings for tuning your LDAP configuration, click Edit LDAP Configuration.
