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Venkatesh_96090
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Jul 10, 2013

IRule for LDAP Authentication

Hello All,   Thank you in first place for choosing to help me. I am new to f5 and apologies if my question turns out to be too stupid.   All I am trying to do is authenticate APM users via LDAP...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Jul 10, 2013

The issue appears to be in the LDAP AAA configuration. Are you using a host name for the server, and if so is it resolvable? Can the BIG-IP reach the LDAP server via the required LDAP port (usually 389 or 636)?

 

 

You can test access to the LDAP server from the management shell with the ldapsearch command. Example:

 

 

 

ldapsearch -H ldap://10.70.0.1:389 -x -b cn=users,dc=mydomain,dc=com -D administrator@mydomain.com -w [password] [search criteria ex. cn=bob]

 

 

You need to be able to see LDAP traffic leave the BIG-IP for the LDAP server. I'd start with that before troubleshooting anything else.