Configuring LDAP for Authentication

LDAP is the protocol that the Active Directory uses for general interaction between and LDAP client and an LDAP server. You can configure the LDAP server(s) in your network, and set the filters and the local policy that the LDAP server uses when handling inbound Lync and PBX calls in the Enterprise core network.

You can use the following objects in the Web GUI to configure LDAP:

• LDAP Config—Configures the LDAP functionality on the Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker (i.e., name, state, LDAP servers, realm, authentication mode, username, password, LDAP search filters, timeout limits, request timeouts, TCP keepalive, LDAP security type, LDAP TLS profile, and LDAP transactions).
• SIP Authentication—Configures the Active Directory attribute names for the Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker's query-digest-username-attribute and digest-hash-attribute fields. These fields specify where the Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker verifies authentication attempts.

See the section on Active Directory and Oracle ECM Routing for important information about:

• LDAP messages
• LDAP failure events
• Oracle ECB limitations using LDAP

That information applies equally to the authentication functionality explained here.