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Managing LDAP Organizational Units and Groups

Clicking the Groups tab will bring you to the Groups management page.

You will see any Organizational Units (OU or Org) and Groups that currently exist in the local LDAP instance such as the "top" Org and the "administrators" Group.

Hovering over an object, represented as a circle in this page, will display information about that object and any objects it contains.

Clicking on one of the objects will also provide information and the interface to add or modify associated objects at that level.

Click on the "Root" circle to create a new Organization Unit that would be a peer of the "top" OU for example.

Click on the "Top" circle to create a new Group as a peer of the "administrators" Group.

Click on a "Group" to manage users associated with that group.

Note

Users can only be created on the Users tab and must exist before they can be associated with a Group.


Creating a New Group

Note

An organization unit (Org or OU) is a construct used to represent an organization whose resources are logically separate from those resources of other, similar organizations. You use OUs to control access to resources and to ensure data segregation

Caution

Do not delete the administrators Group or you will lose your ability to administrate users and groups using El Dapper

In the default instance, created as a demonstration environment, there is a top level Org called Root, an administrators group, and an admin user.

Default LDAP Containers

To create a new Org click the outer-most ring, the Root object, then click the plus icon button on the right side of the screen.

A dialog will open New Org Dialog

allowing you to enter the name and a description for the new Org. When ready click the Save Button button to create the new Org.

A new Group will automatically be created concatenating under the new Org name appending _members and will contain the default admin user. Additional users that have been created with LDAP System Admin permissions can now easily be added by clicking on the new Group.

Deleting the new group or an existing group by clicking the Delete Button. If you delete the last group in an Org, it will also remove the Org.

To Assign Members or Users to a Group, select the desired Group by clicking the appropriate circle. Using the dialog provided, Group Management Dialog select desired Other Users or an existing Member and using the Add or Remove Member Buttons buttons, add or remove them as members of that Group.

Once members are as desired, click the Save Button button to save your changes.

Using the same process as above you can create additional Groups as necessary and manage Members. Click the deisred Org and click the New Group Button to create a new Group and begin assigning Members.


Modifying an Existing Group

To modify an existing Group click the desired cicrle and use the same process as above in Creating a New Group to make any changes or if needed, to Delete that group.