Blade ICE G8124-E Manuale Utente

BMD00220, October 2010

Chapter 4: Authentication & Authorization Protocols  

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BLADEOS supports the LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) method to authenticate 
and authorize remote administrators to manage the switch. LDAP is based on a client/server model. 
The switch acts as a client to the LDAP server. A remote user (the remote administrator) interacts 
only with the switch, not the back-end server and database.

LDAP authentication consists of the following components:

A protocol with a frame format that utilizes TCP over IP

A centralized server that stores all the user authorization information

A client: in this case, the switch

Each entry in the LDAP server is referenced by its Distinguished Name (DN). The DN consists of 
the user-account name concatenated with the LDAP domain name. If the user-account name is 
John, the following is an example DN:

uid=John,ou=people,dc=domain,dc=com

G8124 user groups and user accounts must reside within the same domain. On the LDAP server, 
configure the domain to include G8124 user groups and user accounts, as follows:

User Accounts:

Use the uid attribute to define each individual user account.

User Groups:

Use the members attribute in the groupOfNames object class to create the user groups. The first 
word of the common name for each user group must be equal to the user group names defined 
in the G8124, as follows:



admin



oper



user