LDAP / SMTP
System Administrators can add LDAP and SMTP providers to IBM Spectrum Protect Plus through the LDAP / SMTP pane. Adding an LDAP provider enables LDAP users to be provisioned and access IBM Spectrum Protect Plus using LDAP usernames and passwords. Adding an SMTP server enables email communications to be sent from IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. Note that only one SMTP server and one LDAP server can be associated with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.

- From the navigation menu, expand System Configuration, then click LDAP / SMTP.
- From the LDAP table, click Add
. The LDAP Settings pane displays.
- Populate the fields:
- Host Address
- The IP address or resolvable logical node name of the LDAP server.
- Port
- The port on which the LDAP server is listening. The typical default port is 389 for non SSL connections or 636 for SSL connections.
- SSL
- Enable to establish a secure connection to the LDAP server.
- Use existing user
- Enable to select a previously entered username and password for the provider from the Credentials field.
- Bind Name
- The Bind Distinguished Name used for authenticating the connection to the LDAP server. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus supports simple bind.
- Password
- The password associated with the Bind Distinguished Name.
- Base DN
- The location where users and groups can be found.
- User Filter
- A filter to select only those users under the Base DN that match certain criteria. An example of a valid default user filter is cn={0}.
- To enable authentication using the sAMAccountName Windows user naming attribute, set the User Filter to samaccountname={0}. When this filter is set, users log in to IBM Spectrum Protect Plus using only using their username; a domain is not required.
- To enable authentication using the user principal name (UPN) naming attribute, set the User Filter to userprincipalname={0}. When this filter is set, users log in to IBM Spectrum Protect Plus using the username@domain format.
- To enable authentication using an e-mail address associated with LDAP, set the User Filter to mail={0}.
- Note that this entry also controls the type of user name that appears in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus display of users.
- User RDN
- The relative distinguished path for the user. Specify the path where user records can be found. An example of a valid default RDN is:
- cn=Users
- Group RDN
- The relative distinguished path for the group. Specify the path where group records can be found if the group is at a different level than the user path.
- Click Save. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus first confirms a network connection and then adds the provider to the database.
- If a message appears indicating that the connection is unsuccessful, review your entries. If your entries are correct and the connection is unsuccessful, contact a system administrator to review the connections.

- From the navigation menu, expand System Configuration, then click LDAP / SMTP.
- From the SMTP table, click Add
. The SMTP Settings pane displays.
- Populate the fields:
- Host Address
- A resolvable IP address or a resolvable path and machine name.
- Port
- The communications port of the provider you are adding. The typical default port is 25 for non SSL connections or 443 for SSL connections.
- Username
- The name used to access the provider.
- Password
- The password associated with the username.
- Timeout
- Set the email timeout value in milliseconds.
- From Address
- Set the address to be associated with email communications from IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.
- Subject Prefix
- Set a prefix to add to the email subject lines sent from IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.
- Click Save. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus first confirms a network connection and then adds the provider to the database.
- If a message appears indicating that the connection is unsuccessful, review your entries. If your entries are correct and the connection is unsuccessful, contact a system administrator to review the connections.
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.2
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