Setting Up LDAP Authentication › Validate LDAP Settings

Validate LDAP Settings

The Single Sign-On Configuration Tool lets you test the LDAP settings that you have supplied. You can verify that LDAP authentication is set up correctly. An LDAP test script prompts you to specify a username and password combination to test, using the current settings for LDAP authentication. If you have not already used the Configuration Tool to change LDAP authentication settings, the defaults are used.

Follow these steps:

1. Log in to the server where CA Performance Center or a supported data source product is installed.

   Log in as root or with the 'sudo' command.

2. Launch the Single Sign-On Configuration Tool by running the './SsoConfig' command in the following directory:

   [InstallationDirectory]/CA/PerformanceCenter
   

   You are prompted to select an option. The available options correspond to CA applications running on the local server.

3. Use the following commands as needed while you are selecting settings:
   • q (quit)
   • b (go back to the previous menu)
   • u (update)
   • r (reset)
4. Enter 1 to configure CA Performance Center.

   You are prompted to select an option.

5. Enter 5 for the Test LDAP option.

   The prompt asks you to enter a username.

6. Enter a username and a password that you know can authenticate using LDAP.

   Single Sign-On attempts to use the parameters you supplied when you set up LDAP authentication to connect to the LDAP server and validate the user account. If the test succeeds, numerous steps are logged.

   A message reports whether the authentication succeeded or failed.

7. Enter q to quit.