IBM SG24-7645-00 Manuale Utente

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Maximo Essentials V7.1 - Implementer’s Guide

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Some applications and cron tasks within Maximo require a mail exchange to 
perform. In order to enable, this assign a valid SMTP server name to the global 
value of the following property in the System Properties application:

mail.smtp.host

You can authenticate users against LDAP using Windows Server Active 
Directory. If your organization has Virtual Member Management in place, 
consider using it to perform your authentication. When you configure the 
application server to authenticate against an ActiveDirectory, you create and 
manage users in the LDAP directory server. 

The VMMcron task updates the Maximo database when users, groups, and 
group membership are changed in the directory server. When users and groups 
are deleted from the Active Directory, they are not deleted from the Maximo 
database because these records might be needed for auditing purposes. You 
can also configure the system to populate person, user, and group information 
from the external directory. The system currently supports synchronization of 
information from Microsoft Active Directory. Synchronization with other 
directories is possible, but is not supported as a standard feature and might 
require programming to configure. Both BEA WebLogic Server and IBM 
WebSphere Application Server support authentication against Windows Server 
Active Directory.

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