Determining the needs of your portal site | HCL Digital Experience
The following general use cases are intended only to provide some recommendations for your decisions about directories when integrating collaboration product.
- What directory service are you already using, or do you want to
use, for the user directory for HCL Portal? Possible answers
are:
- A: LDAP directory other than Domino®
- B: Domino® LDAP directory
- What directory service are you already using, or do you want to
use, for the user directories for collaboration products, such as HCL Sametime? Possible answers
are:
- A: LDAP directory other than Domino®
- B: Domino® LDAP directory
- C: Native (non-LDAP) Domino® directory
Single directory (LDAP other than Domino®) site | Your decisions about Domino® integration |
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Your environment is typical of most portal customers. You must install and set up a Sametime server to support awareness. We recommend that you configure the server to authenticate against the LDAP directory already configured with your portal site. To enable single sign-on, configure it as a last task after installing and configuring new servers for collaboration products, to include all the new servers. Support for key features in the collaborative portlets such as auto-detection of users' mail files requires additional configuration in this environment. |
Single directory (Domino® LDAP) site | Your decisions about Domino® integration |
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Your environment is recommended, especially for new portal sites, if you intend to make full use of Domino® integration. Install and configure Domino® as your LDAP directory for the portal. It is a best practice to use the directory configured for Sametime as the directory configured for the portal, and Domino® LDAP is the best choice for Sametime; therefore, in a new site we recommend using Domino® LDAP as the single directory. |
Dual directory-type site (LDAP other than Domino® for portal with Domino® LDAP for Sametime user directory) | Your decisions about Domino® integration |
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Your environment is typical of many portal customers who have investments in both directories that must be maintained. See
the following topics for tasks specific to reconciling directories: |
Multiple directory-type site (LDAP other than Domino® for portal with a combination of other directories, most likely native Domino® directory for Sametime | Your decisions about Domino® integration |
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Your environment is typical of many customers with mature Domino® installations and an investment in an extensive native Domino® directory who want to integrate portal. To support SSO, you must reconcile authentication between user identifications in your native Domino® directory and the portal LDAP directory. See the following topics for
tasks specific to reconciling directories: |