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Marvin_129795
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusF5 APM retrieve AD groups and resend using HTTP POST parameter
Dear all,
I am looking at a particular situation where an internal web server needs to know what kind of AD membership groups are assigned to a user that tries to login. The authentication only ...
Yes this is fairly simple. Use LTM+APM mode, and AD Query / AD Auth in your Access Policy. Set the "start uri" parameter to your backend app's URI, and use forms-based SSO (server-initiated) to fill in the resultant session variables from your AD Query into your form parameter. The groups will be in the form of a pipe-delimited list of the group DNs that came back from the query.
Yes this is fairly simple. Use LTM+APM mode, and AD Query / AD Auth in your Access Policy. Set the "start uri" parameter to your backend app's URI, and use forms-based SSO (server-initiated) to fill in the resultant session variables from your AD Query into your form parameter. The groups will be in the form of a pipe-delimited list of the group DNs that came back from the query.
Great! Thanks for reporting back. You can use that curly brace in a lot of different places in APM for session variable substitution. It's pretty useful for different stuff.