LDAP Base

The LDAP tab on the Administration page provides the LDAP Base field to identify the Distinguished Name (DN) of the base domain for LDAP synchronization at your site.

The LDAP base domain is the top-level directory to which all other objects in your LDAP directory belong. In essence, the base domain represents your organization. This directory is identified by domain components (DCs), which make up its Distinguished Name (DN). For example, based on the example DIT in Figure 2-1, you would enter the following DN in the LDAP Base field as the base domain for the Acme organization:

DC=acme,DC=com 

In some cases, sub-domains are set up in the LDAP directory structure. For example, the Acme organization might have two major divisions, Hardware and Software (not shown in the example), identified as sub-domain components in the directory structure. If Code Insight synchronizes with the Software sub-domain only, the DN for the LDAP base would be the following:

DC=software,DC=acme,DC=com