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How to Configure a Custom User Directory Connection

You can use a Custom directory as a user store. The following process lists the steps for creating the user store connection to the Policy Server:

1. Ping the User Store System
2. Configure the Custom Directory Connection

Ping the User Store System

Be sure to ping your user store system before configuring to verify that a network connection exists between the Policy Server and the user directory or database.

Note: Some user store systems may require the Policy Server to present credentials.

Configure Custom Directory Connections

You can configure a user directory connection that lets the Policy Server communicate with a custom user store.

Follow these steps:

1. Click Infrastructure, Directory.
2. Click User Directories.
3. Click Create User Directory.

   Note: Click Help for descriptions of settings and controls, including their respective requirements and limits.

4. Select Custom from the Namespace list.
5. Complete the required connection information in the General and Directory Setup areas.
6. (Optional) Complete the following steps in the Administrator Credentials area:
   1. Select the Require Credentials option.
   2. Enter the credentials of an administrator account.
7. (Optional) Click Create in the Attribute Mapping List area to configure user attribute mapping.

   Note: The Policy Server uses the shared library to determine the user attributes that are available to the custom directory. Before you enter user attributes, create the user directory connection.

8. Click Submit.

   The user directory connection is created.

More information:

Directory Attributes Overview

Define an Attribute Mapping