[cisco-voip] LDAP Search Refinement

[Nick Griffin]

Wes, are you still able to provide this information, I have a similar
requirement/need to filter within an OU based on certain attributes. Thanks
in advance.

Nick Griffin

On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 10:14 AM, Wes Sisk <wsisk at cisco.com> wrote:

>  Matthew,
>
> For CM5.x and 6.x there is an ldap filtering mechanism that allows you to
> filter on user attributes.  So if you can set a 'valid' attribute on all of
> your valid users, you can then setup an ldap filter for CM that only imports
> those valid users.  It will be some leg work, but it is possible.  I will
> pass you the instructions offline.
>
> /Wes
>
> 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?
>
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