Registering New Database

Along with the databases registered by Virtuozzo by default, you can register your own user databases, thus, allowing users' authentication through external servers. The requirements for these databases can be found in the Managing Authentication Databases section . You can register a new authentication database on the Register Authentication Database screen which can be displayed by following the Security link on the Infrastructure Manager menu, clicking the Authentication Database tab, and following the Register Database link at the top of the Authentication Databases table. On this screen you should provide the following parameters for the database:

• Database Name (mandatory): specify an arbitrary name to be assigned to the database; you can choose any descriptive name you like. This name will be displayed in the Authentication Databases table and identify the given database among other databases registered in Infrastructure Manager.
• Server Address (mandatory): enter the hostname or IP address of the server storing the user database.
• Port (mandatory): indicate the port number to be used to connect to the user database on the server. The default port for databases hosted by Windows Active Directory and Linux LDAP is 389.
• Login : type the name of the user with the administrative credentials for the server indicated above.
• Password : enter the password of the user specified in the Login field.
• Domain : enter the name of the domain, if any, where the server hosting the user database resides.

  Note: If the Infrastructure Manager Master Node is running Linux, and you are registering a Windows Active Directory database, you must fill in this field. If you are registering an OpenLDAP database, you must leave this field empty. Doing otherwise will make it impossible to import the users information into Parallels Infrastructure Manager.

• Base DN (mandatory): specify a distinguished name uniquely identifying the entry of the user specified in the Login field in the authentication database.
• Default DN : indicate the default distinguished name used for the user's entry in the authentication database.

After providing the necessary information, click the Submit button to start registering the database. After a while, the registered database will be displayed in the table on the Authentication Databases tab of the Security screen.

Note: To be able to use Infrastructure Manager, users should have the privilege to log in to Infrastructure Manager, which can be defined in the global (Virtuozzo Group) scope only. The easiest way to do this is to include the corresponding users from the external database in the precreated Parallels Infrastructure Manager Users group.

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