4.1 Enabling Other Identity Systems

During the installation of the NFR Engine, you specify the primary identity system (directory service) when you load the Novell File Reporter license file. If the Novell File Reporter license file is for Active Directory, then Active Directory is the primary identity system. If the license file is for eDirectory, then eDirectory is the primary identity system.

Novell File Reporter lets you enable other identity systems so that you can scan and report on the storage resources that are within those systems.

4.1.1 Enabling eDirectory

Novell File Reporter allows you to enable multiple eDirectory trees as identity systems.

IMPORTANT:If you have Universal Passwords set up for all users in your tree, you must have the proper settings for Novell File Reporter to work. Refer to Novell File Reporter 2.6 Installation Guide for more information.

IMPORTANT:If your primary identity system is Active Directory and you want to enable eDirectory, you must first install the Novell Client on the Windows server that is hosting the NFR Engine.

  1. Select Administration > Identity Systems.

  2. Click Add.

    Default Server Address: Specify the IP address of any server in the directory tree.

    Username: Use typeless FDN format naming to specify an administrator name.

    Password: Specify the administrator password.

    Tree Name: Specify the name of the eDirectory tree.

    Proxy Object FDN: Use typeless FDN format naming to specify a name for the proxy object that you are creating.

    For example, NFRProxyObject.system

    Assign Supervisor rights to [Root] for Proxy Account: Leaving this check box selected enables Novell File Reporter to scan all volumes in the directory tree. If you deselect this option, the NFR Agent can scan only those volumes to which the NFR proxy object has been given supervisor rights.

    When this option is deselected, storage resources might not build properly.

    We therefore recommend that this option remain selected.

  3. Complete the fields and click OK.

    The eDirectory identity system is added.

  4. (Optional) Repeat these steps to add additional eDirectory identity systems.

4.1.2 Enabling Active Directory

Novell File Reporter 2.6 allows you to enable only one Active Directory forest as an identity system.

  1. Select Administration > Identity Systems.

  2. Click Add.

  3. In the Identity System region, click the Active Directory option.

    Username: Specify a username for an administrator in Active Directory.

    Password: Specify the password for the administrator.

    Forest Root: Because the Windows NFR Engine host server is already part of a domain, the forest name is entered automatically.

    Proxy User: Name the proxy user.

    For example, NFRProxy.

    Proxy Rights Group: Name the proxy rights group.

    For example, NFRProxyRights.

  4. Click OK.

    The Active Directory identity system is added.