Cisco Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server Quick Setup Guide

Sign in to the end-user web interface.

Select Admin.

Select Web Server.

Select the name of the Web Server that you want to configure in the “View” section of the page.

Scroll to the Web Authentication section.

Select LDAP for “Step 1: Directory”.

Enter the LDAP hostname in the field provided.

Example: ldap.domain.com

Enter the Distinguished Name (DN) information for your directory in the field provided noting the 
following considerations:

Cisco Unified MeetingPlace user profile login names are limited to 17 characters; therefore, the 
LDAP match must be 17 characters or less.

You can only enter one value for the LDAP Distinguished Name (DN) field. If your users are 
segregated into multiple organizational units (OUs), you can work around this issue by using either 
the DOMAIN\USER or user@ou.domain.com format for the DN. When configuring the LDAP 
Distinguished Name field, enter just %USERNAME%, without specifying an OU, DC, or other 
parameter.

All users in the LDAP server directory must be in one container rather than broken into multiple 
containers each representing a child OU.

%USERNAME% is the username that the user enters when logging in.

Before sending the request to the LDAP server %USERNAME% is replaced with the username that 
the user enters in the login username field. No additional modifications are made to the DN value.

%USERNAME% is case-sensitive, that is, all upper case.

If you match any of the following circumstances, leave the DN field blank (empty) instead of 
entering %USERNAME%:

You are authenticating against a multiple LDAP forest configuration. Example: 
CN=%USERNAME%, OU=People, DC=mydomain, DC=com

The LDAP server you are using is the LDAP interface on a Microsoft Active Directory server. 
If this is the case, you must leave the DN field blank (empty) for authentication to work. When 
configured in this manner, the format of the usernames that the user enters must be 
DOMAIN\USER or user@ou.domain.com.

You want to send user passwords as protected (that is, not as clear text). Enteringa value for the 
DN field sends passwords as clear text.

If you choose to enter a value for the DN field, it is your responsibility to establish a secure 
connection between the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace web server and the LDAP server. This 
is not the same as configuring SSL configuration on the web server. The SSL feature in Cisco 
Unified MeetingPlace protects traffic between the client and web server. You will require a 
secure connection between the web server and the LDAP server.