It is recommended to register your NSX deployment with your corporate domain. This allows NSX to map user and group information and also the associations that allow you to create security bindings based on these relationships.
Register a domain to your NSX Manager with the following procedure:
- Log in to the vSphere webclient and navigate to
Home
|Networking
& Security
|NSX Managers
. Select your NSX Manager, and go to theManage
|Domain
tab: - Click the
+
sign to add a new domain. - Enter a fully qualified
Domain Name
. - Specify the domain controller that the domain needs to be synchronized with. Select the protocol.
- Enter the user credentials for the account and click
Next
. - Select
Use Domain Credentials
if you want to authenticate using the LDAP server.
- You can additionally select
Yes
orNo
for the security event log segment. This step is used by Active Directory Event Log Scraper, which allows you to configure the identity firewall, where firewall rules are tied...