LDAP Service Settings

Important: After making changes, click Save. Stop the service , wait 5-10 seconds and restart the service.

Note: At the top of each Services page, the name of the Service, its Status (Running or Stopped), a Start/Stop button appears and a Restart button appears. This allows you to Start, Stop, or Restart individual Services from their respective web pages, as well as from the Service Administration page.

Install Location. Enter (or Browse to) the location of the directory where the OpenLDAP files are located. By default, the installation path for IMail is "C:\Program Files\Ipswitch\Messaging\IMail\OpenLDAP". The following folders are located under the "..\OpenLDAP" folder:
- bin. Folder where all OpenLDAP binaries are stored. These are:
  - Openldap-data. Folder where all folders with domain specific databases are stored, containing a folder named after each existing domain.
  - schema. Folder where all OpenLDAP schema files are stored. Schema files are text files that determine the properties of each object.
- Share\ucdata. Contains supporting data files for the LDAP server. These files should not be modified.
  Important: You can change the OpenLDAP file location, but you must move the OpenLDAP files manually to the location that you specify in this field. The slapd.exe file must also be unregistered and re-registered in the new location. You can also browse to the installation location by clicking the Browse button.
- Create New Folder
  - New Folder Name. Enter the name for the folder in which you wish to manually move the OpenLDAP files, as described in the preceding Important section. Click Create. Click OK.
Port. Enter the Port that the LDAP server runs on. This can be changed to allow OpenLDAP to run on the same server as another LDAP server.

LDAP Actions

Note: After clicking Sync LDAP, you need to stop and restart the LDAP server.

Sync LDAP. Click this button to synchronize the LDAP database in order to clean up orphaned accounts or add accounts that do not yet exist.
Caution: The Init LDAP button initializes the LDAP database created for all e-mail domains by the LDAP server. Do not click Initialize LDAP unless you want to overwrite the database with the user IDs only that are stored in the Windows registry. First try synchronizing the LDAP database to resolve any problems.

If the Open LDAP server is not running, you are asked whether you want to start it. Initializing LDAP deletes all user changes to the attribute values and add all users back to the LDAP server in the default state.

Important: You can also use the iLDAP.exe utility to Init or Sync a specified LDAP domain or all the LDAP domains. This utility can be used in the case when the Web Administrator does not properly Init or Sync all the LDAP domains on a server. This issue sometimes occurs on servers running Microsoft Windows 2003 machines with over 30 domains.
Init LDAP. Click this button to initialize the LDAP database for the server.
Save. Click to save your settings. An Update Successful message and the time of the update appears.

Related Topics

About LDAP Server

About LDAP Data

LDAP Settings

LDAP User Information

Populating the LDAP Database Using Ldaper.exe

Init & Sync LDAP DB - iLDAP.exe utility