Sample Configuration: Cisco UCS, LDAP and Active Directory
Testing Your Configuration

Testing Your Configuration

This chapter includes the following sections:

Testing Your Configuration Using the UCS Manager CLI

Procedure
     Command or ActionPurpose
    Step 1Log into the Cisco UCS Manager CLI.   
    Step 2UCS-A# connect nxos 

    Enters NXOS mode.

     
    Step 3 UCS-A (nxos)# test aaa server ldap ip-address username password  

    Tests the LDAP configuration for any user that you have configured.

     

    The following example tests the LDAP configuration:

    UCS-A# connect nxos
    UCS-A (nxos) # test aaa server ldap 10.29.96.77 sampleaaa password
    user has been authenticated
    Attributes downloaded from remote server:
    User Groups:
         CN=ucsadmin,OU=CiscoUCS,DC=sampledesign,DC=com
    Roles:
    	    admin
    
    

    Testing Your Configuration Using the UCS Manager GUI

    Procedure
      Step 1   Launch the Cisco UCS Manager GUI.
      Step 2   In the User Name field, type sampleaaa.
      Step 3   In the Password field, type your sampleaaa AD password.
      Step 4   From the Domain drop-down list, select your LDAP provider and click OK.
      Step 5   Navigate to All > User Management > User Services > Remotely Authenticated Users and confirm that your authentication domain and AD username are listed.

      This value takes the format AuthenticationDomain\ADUserName.