Updating Profiles when changing LDAP directory

When you change to a new LDAP directory with the same users, you must synchronize the user data in Profiles with the user data in your new LDAP directory. You can use the sync_all_dns command, provided that certain criteria are met.

Before you begin

You must ensure that the values of either the uid or the email address in the existing data source match those in the new deployment LDAP directory. If neither of these properties have matching values, you cannot use the scripts provided with IBM® Connections to synchronize.

Note: Changing a user's identifier in Connections Content Manager (CCM) results in the user record being viewed by the system as a completely new user, and access will be lost, which can be a particular concern when administrative access is lost.

Procedure

To use the scripts provided with IBM Connections to synchronize the IDs and update Profiles, complete the following steps:

Open the profiles_tdi.properties file from the IBM Tivoli® Directory Integrator solution directory on the system that hosts the Profiles application in a text editor, and edit the following properties to match the values of the corresponding properties in the LDAP system:
- source_ldap_url
- source_ldap_user_login
- source_ldap_user_password
- source_ldap_search_base
- source_ldap_search_filter
- source_ldap_use_ssl
For more information about these properties and how they are used, see Tivoli Directory Integrator solution properties for Profiles.
Ensure that the guid property in the map_dbrepos_from_source.properties file is set to the appropriate value for your LDAP:
- IBM Tivoli Directory Server:
```
guid=ibm-entryUuid
```
- IBM Lotus® Domino® Directory:
```
guid={function_map_from_dominoUNID}
```
- Microsoft™ Active Directory:
```
guid={function_map_from_objectGUID}
```
- Sun Java™ System Directory Server:
```
guid=nsuniqueid
```
- Novell (NetIQ) eDirectory:
```
guid={function_map_from_GUID}
```
Ensure that all other properties in the map_dbrepos_from_source.properties are set to the correct LDAP attribute name.
Identify a database attribute to synchronize with, either uid or email, with the same value per member in the old LDAP deployment as in the new, and then set the sync_updates_hash_field property in the profiles_tdi.properties file to this attribute.
For example:
```
sync_updates_hash_field=uid
```
Synchronize the data so that the values from the new LDAP deployment are updated in the Profiles database by running the following script:
- IBM AIX® or Linux™:
```
chmod +x sync_all_dns.sh
./sync_all_dns.sh
```
- Microsoft Windows™:
```
sync_all_dns.bat
```
For more information about the properties that you can set when synchronizing LDAP data with Profiles, see Synchronizing the Profiles database with your organization's user data.