Configuring a Portal to Use LDAP Referrals

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 your environment has more than one user registry existing on multiple servers or domains.

To configure your portal to use LDAP referrals, do the following:

1. Use any text editor to open the wkplc.properties file in the following directory: wp_profile_root/ConfigEngine/properties.

2. 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

3. Save and close wkplc.properties.

4. Run the following task from the wp_profile_root/ConfigEngine directory to create an LDAP entity type:

   ./ConfigEngine.bat wp-update-et-ldap -DWasPassword=password
   Windows: ./ConfigEngine.sh wp-update-et-ldap -DWasPassword=password
   i: ./ConfigEngine.sh wp-update-et-ldap -DWasPassword=password
   

5. Stop and restart the appropriate servers to propagate the changes.