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  1. Click Settings to load the Services console.

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Settings menu

 


2. You should now see the following screen.

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Services management page

 


3. Choose Add Service and select LDAP Group Cache.


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Service selection

 


4. The service will now load the configuration screen. This may take a moment if the connection to the internet is slow. Once the service has been downloaded, you will see the following:

 


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Service configuration

 


5. Enter a service name or leave as default.

 


6. Click the Service tab at the top of the screen or use the “arrow” at the right of the screen to move to the service configuration screen. You will now see the service configuration.

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User query should be an ldap formed query that will return all of the users that you wish to cache. Typically this will be something like (objectClass=user) although in our case this brings back computer accounts and we are not interested in these, so we extend the query to exclude these using (&(objectClass=user)(!(objectClass=computer))) instead. Group query is the query to return all groups you wish to cache, typically (objectClass=group).


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Service configuration

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Notice that any attribute you use in the mappings MUST be specified in the user and group attributes cache. In the following example, as the groups are specified in each user you need to specify the "memberOf" attribute as an user attribute in the cache.

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Service configuration

 


9. Choose the frequency with which the cache should be refreshed by setting the schedule.

Select Save to save the configuration and load the service. This may take a moment while the required components are downloaded. Afterthe service is installed, you will be taken back to the Services home page.

 




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When this is complete, we will have a user name and a list of group names and this information will be inserted in to the cache.