Adding more attributes to VMM
After you install IBM® WebSphere® Portal and configuring your LDAP user registries, you must adapt the attribute configuration to match the configured LDAP servers and your business needs. However, do not complete these steps if you configured only a database user registry or the default federated file-based repository for out-of-box installations.
About this task
After installation, IBM WebSphere Portal has a predefined set of attributes for users and groups. Your LDAP server might have a different set of predefined user and group attributes. To ensure communication between WebSphere Portal and your LDAP server, you can configure extra attributes. Flag the attributes as required or unsupported on a per repository basis or for all configure repositories.
LDAP servers can handle only attributes that are
explicitly defined in their schema. The LDAP schema is different from
the WebSphere Portal schema. The
two schemas are required to match for communication between WebSphere Portal and the LDAP server.
The task to add the LDAP user registry does some basic attribute configurations
that depend on the LDAP server. You might still have to adapt the WebSphere Portal configuration to match
the LDAP schema. If an attribute is in WebSphere Portal but not in the LDAP
server, complete one of the following tasks to resolve this mismatch:
Use the following tasks to adapt the attribute configuration
to match the configured LDAP servers and your business needs:- Flag the attribute as unsupported for the LDAP server
- Introduce an attribute mapping that maps the WebSphere Portal attribute to an attribute defined in the LDAP schema
Parent topic: User registry
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