Monday, February 9, 2009

HP Onboard Administrator LDAP authentication search context issue

This was an annoying problem today, so I'm posting it in case it helps anyone else.

I was trying to get the OA for our blades connecting to our AD. I setup the LDAP like the manual said, but no joy. Some research on the HP forums said that if the user you want to connect as is in a different OU than the group they're a member of, both need to be configured as search contexts in the OA config. My config page looks like this:

Directory Server Address: dc.domain.com

Directory Server SSL Port: 636

Search Context 1: OU=AdminGroups,OU=Admin,DC=domain,DC=com

Search Context 2: OU=Admins,OU=Admin,DC=domain,DC=com

And then the group setup is like so:

CN=ILO-Admin,OU=AdminGroups,OU=Admin,DC=domain,DC=com

So the group above is listed in the search context 1, but my admin account is in a different OU, which is search context 2. Bah.

4 comments:

Can8dnSix said...

Hi Brad;

Did you ever get this figured out? I'm working on the exact same thing and was wondering what your outcome was, thanks.

Lindis.

Unknown said...

at the search context add @domainname.... example: @google
this should get it back to work.

Brian Heckethorn said...

I too was having this problem: I'd hope by now you have it figured out. I had my OU structure backwards in my Search Context where I had the parent OU first and then the Sub-OU second: example:
domain.com
-POU1
--COU1
---COU2
The wrong search context was:
OU=POU1,OU=COU1,OU=COU2,DC=DOMAIN,DC=COM

The proper search context is:
OU=COU2,OU=COU1,OU=POU1,DC=DOMAIN,DC=COM

Also be sure to add the @domain.com in one of the search fields as Cor suggested.

I know it's been a while, but I hope this helps.

Unknown said...

Thanks for posting Max. I had the same issue. Security Group in one OU, user accounts in another OU.