Active Directory back channel configuration

Introduction

Active Directory Back Channel refers to a mechanism that allows Soffid to synchronize user information with an external Active Directory (AD) server in real-time or near real-time. This synchronization ensures that both Soffid and AD maintain consistent and up-to-date data.

How to install Active Directory back channel?

Download

In order to configure the Active Directory back-channel, you must use the eris command line tool. To do this, please, download the Password Synchronizer from our download portal:

Install

First of all, you must install the Windows package "Password synchronizer-3.0.x.msi"

Once installed Password Synchronizer on your system, please change to eris or eris64 directory (\ProgramFiles\Soffid\eris64) and execute:

eris-ad-service install

Configure

Finally, you must configute the Password Synchronizer executing the following command:

eris-ad-service CONFIGURE url-syncserver agent-name

• url-syncserver is the master sync server url (http://master.dom.dom:port)
• agent-name is the agent code name configured on Soffid console.

To see more information when configuring use | more. 

Example

eris-ad-service CONFIGURE https://sync-server.netcompose:1760/ "AD owatest.lab" | more

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Test configuration

In order to test configuration, you must use the eris command line tool.

eris-ad-service TEST user pass

Where user and pass can be dummy. If you use a real one it will be propagated to the system.

To see more information during test use | more.

Example

eris-ad-service TEST aretha password | more

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 Generated Task in the proper agent