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How to sync contact groups with LDAP

The LDAP Helper module can be used in organizations desiring to utilize LDAP groups to populate contact groups in OP5 Monitor.

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This article was written for version 7.3.5 of Monitor, it could work on both lower and higher version if nothing else is stated.

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Installation Copied

Steps to set up the LDAP helper module:

Please install only on the master, not master-peers. Except for needing to have LDAP sync on master-peers in the event of a failover scenario (rare).

  1. Download the ldap helper module archive (tar.gz).
  2. Extract the folder to /opt on the OP5 server.

Configure Copied

Configure the LDAP helper module :

  1. Modify: /opt/op5-ldap-helper/op5-ldap-helper.conf.yml

    1. Verify lines 2 & 3 match the name of the auth connector driver. (i.e. LDAP)

      NOTE: The sync action utilizes the existing LDAP Auth Module configuration.

    2. Modify lines 26 & 27 if you would like to filter for specific groups.

      1. custom_group_filter - For adding (cn=*GROUP_NAME*) include the asterisks but change GROUP_NAME of the group would “enable” OP5 to scan this specific group.

    3. Modify lines 46 & 47 with the user for API access to OP5 Monitor.

      1. op5api - In order for the script to work with OP5 a user “apiuser” was created in OP5. The credentials are stored in this file.
  2. Setup a contact group prefaced with “LDAP_” for example “LDAP_testgroup”.

Using the module Copied

Running the script to sync groups:

  1. Once the group is configured within the config file, go to /opt/op5-ldap-helper/ and run the following: ./op5-ldap-helper.pl
  2. To see available help use: ./op5-ldap-helper.pl -h
  3. To perform a dry run (no save), and get detailed output use: ./op5-ldap-helper.pl -d -C -n
  4. To perform a run with sync, simply run: ./op5-ldap-helper.pl
  5. Consider creating a cron job to periodically sync groups.
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