Setting user attributes map properties

These properties specify the user attributes that the system imports from the directory server.

Procedure

  1. Click Settings > Configuration and navigate to the >IBM Marketing Platform | Security | LDAP Synchronization category.
  2. Set values in the User attributes map section to map the listed IBM® EMM user attributes to the user attributes in your directory server.

    If you are using group based synchronization, the only property you are required to map is User login. Typically, this value is uid in LDAP servers and sAMAccountName in Windows™ Active Directory servers. Use the value you verified as described in "Obtaining required information."

    If you are using attribute based synchronization, map the attributes on which you want to search.

    Note the following.

    • The properties that you map here are replaced for the imported users each time Marketing Platform synchronizes with your directory server.
    • Marketing Platform requires that email addresses conform to the definition stated in RFC 821. If the email addresses on your directory server do not conform to this standard, do not map them as attributes to be imported.
    • If your directory server database allows an attribute to have more characters than is allowed in the Marketing Platform system tables, as shown in the following table, the attribute value is truncated to fit.
    Table 1. Number of characters allowed for user attributes
    Attribute Allowed length
    User login (required) 256
    First name 128
    Last name 128
    User title 128
    Department 128
    Company 128
    Country 128
    User email 128
    Address 1 128
    Work phone 20
    Mobile phone 20
    Home phone 20
    Alternate login (required on UNIX™) 256