Gathering Groupwise System Information - Novell DATA SYNCHRONIZER - INSTALLATION GUIDE 07-2010 Installation Manual

Using LDAP
groups
Setting
application
names
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installation
Multi-server
installation
Regardless of the variables involved in adding users to your Synchronizer system, advanced
planning can make the process of adding users easier and faster.
IMPORTANT: Be sure to add yourself to the Synchronizer system for testing purposes.

2.1.4 Gathering GroupWise System Information

In order to configure the GroupWise Connector as you run the Data Synchronizer Installation
program, you need to gather certain information about the GroupWise system where users want to
synchronize data.
"GroupWise Trusted Application" on page 19
"GroupWise Post Office Agent" on page 19
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LDAP groups are a powerful tool for ongoing Synchronizer system management. When
you add LDAP groups to your Synchronizer system, you can later add and delete users in
the LDAP groups, and the users are automatically added or deleted for the connectors
that are configured with those groups. This saves you from the manual work of manually
adding or deleting users for two or more connectors using Synchronizer Web Admin.
When you add or delete the users in the LDAP group, Synchronizer Web Admin
automatically adds or deletes the users for all connectors that are configured with the
group.
IMPORTANT: LDAP groups must include at least one user in order to be added to your
Synchronizer system during installation.
If users' LDAP usernames are not the same as their GroupWise user IDs, you must set
users' application names in Synchronizer Web Admin to map from LDAP usernames to
GroupWise user IDs. This must be done regardless of whether you add the users during
installation or after installation, and it applies to users who are added by being members
of LDAP groups. To plan ahead for this process, review
Name" in "Managing Connectors" in the
If you are planning a single-server Synchronizer system, you might already have or want
to create LDAP groups based on departmental membership, organizational roles,
geographic locations, or even the need to participate in data synchronization. For
example, if only a few users have data that should be synchronized and they are
scattered throughout a number of existing LDAP groups, you might create a new LDAP
group named
DataSyncUsers
Synchronizer system.
If you are planning a multi-server Synchronizer system, you might already have or want
to create LDAP groups that would be set up on different Synchronizer servers. You might
be planning several Synchronizer servers based on geographic location, so having an
LDAP group of users for each geographic location would facilitate adding users to
connectors. If you want a separate Synchronizer server for executives, creating an LDAP
group of executives would allow you to add them as a group, rather than selecting each
executive individually. If you have a very large number of groups with no particular
distinguishing characteristics, you might want to create LDAP groups based on the first
letter of users' last names or usernames (for example, A-I, J-R, and S-Z).
"Changing a User's Application
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so that you can easily add them as a group to your
Guide.