Compatibility with NT domains
The information contained in this topic allows your user ID to
login to Web Reports with the role assigned if:
- The user ID is defined on both the NT domain and the Active Directory.
- The name of the domain used for NT authentication is different from the name of the domain specified in Active Directory.
- You integrated the Active Directory with the Web Reports in your BigFix environment.
- On Windows systems:
- Open the registry.
- Select:
HKLM -> Software -> Wow6432Node -> BigFix -> Enterprise Server -> BESReports
- Specify the file converter as follows:
where FullPathConversionFile is the path name to a file containing a row for each domain name conversion that must be applied to the domain names, for example:NTDomainFilePath = FullPathConversionFile
my_NT_Domain|my_LDAP_domain
- Restart the Web Reports service.
- On Linux systems:
- In the configuration file /var/opt/BESWebReportsServer/beswebreports.config,
specify under
[Software\BigFix\Enterprise Server\BESReports]
the file converter:
where FullPathConversionFile is the path name to a file containing a row for each domain name conversion that must be applied to the domain names, for example:NTDomainFilePath = FullPathConversionFile
my_NT_Domain|my_LDAP_domain
- Restart the Web Reports process.
- In the configuration file /var/opt/BESWebReportsServer/beswebreports.config,
specify under