Enabling Rational Directory Server

Administering : Authentication in Focal Point® : Authenticating by using Rational Directory Server : Enabling Rational Directory Server

You can enable IBM Rational Directory Server by running SQL commands in the SQL interface.

Before you begin

▪ You must be a global administrator.

▪ You must have access to restart the Focal Point^® server.

▪ You must have access to the SQL interface, that is, the configuration property sqltools.enable must be set to true.

▪ You must have a supported version of Rational Directory Server installed.

▪ Make sure that you know how Rational Directory Server affects Focal Point^®. For more information, see Effects of enabling Rational Directory Server.

Procedure

1 Click Administration from the User menu, and then click Advanced > SQL.

2 Type the SQL query:

update configurationproperties set value='true' where name='tds.enable'

Click the corresponding Execute button.

3 Restart the server.

4 Click Administration from the User menu. Click the Users tab.

▪ Click Rational Directory Server Settings to configure the Rational Directory Server settings.

▪ Click Rational Directory Server Update to schedule the Rational Directory Server information update for the users. This is displayed only for global administrators and whose authentication type is Rational Directory Server.

▪ Click Administer Users, select the user, and set the Authentication attribute to Rational Directory Server so that users can authenticate by using Rational Directory Server.

Note If you switch from stand-alone mode to corporate LDAP or vice versa, restart Focal Point^®.