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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 3, 2018

Microsoft Active Directory Integration for Application Discovery Configuration Server Admin

Currently, when setting up users and groups in Application Discovery Configuration Server Admin page, the administrators are going

through a time consuming process of setting up users and groups manually. The users need to be added via an import file or

individually. Adding users to groups is even more time consuming that each user need to be added either using an import file or

clicking on the checkbox in the full user list.

We would like to request for the following features:
1. Active directory integration for IBM AD config server admin users and groups setup
2. Source files permission provisioning using active directory groups or user ids

Detailed description:
We would like to have a feature where it is possible to connect IBM AD Config Server Admin to the company active directory. It

should be possible to setup active directory groups and then configure IBM AD config to connect to active directory and import

users from these groups. There should also be generic groups like Administrators as well.

Another feature which is required is the restriction of access to various physical source files on the AD server disk. Currently,

we give read access to everyone for all source files across different projects. This is a concern since the source files can still

be browsed using network file path even if the access is restricted at project level in AD config server. AD should automatically

restrict file permissions on the respective source folders either using active directory groups or user ids.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Oct 25, 2019

    authentication/authorization feature added in AD 5.1.0.3

  • Guest
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    Dec 10, 2018

    Thank you for taking the time to suggest an enhancement to our product. Many of our product enhancements result from feedback from our customers, so your input is always very important to us. Your request is currently in line with our product strategy and we have planned it for a future release of the product. Thank you for your suggestion and continued support.