Collecting Active Directory information in another domain

[FrediG]

Flexera suggested that you deploy your Inventory Beacon in the same domain as your client, but my client do not allow it. My question is: Will I be able to collect the AD information for client if the Inventory Beacon is not in the same domain as my client.

[ChrisG]

A beacon should be able to gather data from any Active Directory domain as long as:
[LIST=1]

The beacon has network connectivity to the LDAP port on a domain controller from the target domain; and

Credentials of a user with appropriate read access to perform LDAP queries to extract data from the domain are recorded in the domain connection details in the beacon UI.

[tallal85]

Hi Chris,

For importing data, i must use "User" (screenshoot attached) for data integration?

if i mentioned just the windows account of the server, all the data will be imported?

for information it's a portail ldap that contain information users.

Thank you for your help.

Regards,

[Tooling42]

If the network allows a connection from the beacon server to the LDAP Server (domain controller) and you have a service account in the domain, there are two options:

a) Data collection: Active Directory
b) Data collection: Business Importer
- Template: User
- Type: Directory Service
- Login, Password, LDAP Path
and you can use filter, e.g. (&(ObjectCategory=Person)(c=GI))
--> You can use option b) when the template provide the fields which you need.

For a simple test, you can use every user account of the domain,
but strongly recommend use a service account for daily tasks.