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Overview

The Active directory Source will connect to Active Directory:

• it will detect automatically new windows servers and collect data on them.
• it will list user defined in the AD.

Server, Data and User can be retrieved in sub-part of the AD, preventing to load all the AD, or filter to collect only appropriate data.

Configuration

To define a Active Directory source:

1. Configure the module in the file /etc/shinken/modules/activ-dir-import.cfg
   to define the behaviour of the module
   
2. Then configure the source in the file /etc/shinken/sources/activ-dir-import.cfg
   to enable the source and call the module configured in step 1.
   
3. Then you must declare the VMware source in the file /etc/shinken/synchronizers/synchronizer-master.cfg.
   
   

Configure this source

sources/sync-vmware.cfg

module/sync-vmware

.cfg

All you need is to set the following parameters:

Configure this source

This connection information will allow the source to connect to your Active Directory. It only needs a « read only » account.

This source also includes other parameters that will allow you to automatically “tag” your servers based on your active directory information:

• hosts_tag: each loaded hosts will have at least this tag
• contacts_tag: each loaded contacts will have at least this tag

Contacts to load can be easily filtered with the contacts_filters parameter.

Tagging hosts based on their OU (Organization Unit) is possible. This is done with the hosts_tag_* parameters.

For example, if you want to add the exchange tag to all the servers which are below

the OU=Email Collaboration Servers,OU=DataCenter Servers,DC=YOUR,dc=DOMAIN,dc=com OU,

you can set this parameter:

hosts_tag_exchange  OU=Email Collaboration Servers,OU=DataCenter Servers,DC=YOUR,dc=DOMAIN,dc=com

Setting up ldap object matching with the hosts_match_* parameters is also possible.

For example, if you want to add the enterprise tag to all the ldap object that match the string Enterprise in their operatingSystem property,

you only need to setup :

hosts_match_operatingSystem_enterprise        Enterprise

 This also works with groups.

 For example, if you want to add the domain-admins tag to the users that are in the CN=Domain Admins,CN=Users,DC=YOUR,dc=DOMAIN,dc=com OU,

setup :

 contacts_match_memberOf_domain-admins         CN=Domain Admins,CN=Users,DC=YOUR,dc=DOMAIN,dc=com

Custom fields and host templates setting

If presents into the Ldap objects, some fields are automatically set on your host objects: