[cisco-voip] LDAP Search Refinement

[Bill Simon]

We made a custom directory lookup script to search against our 
non-CCM-like LDAP. 
http://www.personal.psu.edu/wcs131/blogs/psuvoip/2007/10/ldap_directory_search_and_dial_1.html

Feel free to take the code and work it into your environment.

Matthew J. Hughes wrote:
> We are implementing CCM6 on campus and now using our Active Directory 
> for logins for CCMusers, and for the directory.   The AD was not 
> designed to be CCM friendly so it has OUs that are not wanted, and users 
> in the groups that don't have a phone associated with them.  It is 
> possible I suppose to mess with the AD structure and move unwanted users 
> to alternate OUs, but this shouldn't be necessary.    You can define a 
> "LDAP User Search Base" but my understanding is you can not put refined 
> search criteria in this field. I want to only get the AD users that have 
> a 4 digit extension listed in the IPPHONE field of LDAP.   I don't see a 
> way to do this in CCM Admin.   Are any of you familiar with LDAP enough 
> to give guidance?  All I could think to do is have a intermediary LDAP 
> "Gateway"  the gateway(OPEN LDAP, etc..) will sync with AD getting only 
> the users I want, CCM6 would then sync with the Gateway.  Downside is we 
> have to maintain a different LDAP server just for this purpose.   Any 
> Ideas?