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QlikView Server and Publisher

By : Stephen Redmond
Book Image

QlikView Server and Publisher

By: Stephen Redmond

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
QlikView Server and Publisher
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Types of Directory Service Provider (DSP)


Even if we are not authenticating against LDAP, we can have another party authenticate and use one of the other mechanisms to pass that authentication through to QlikView. For that reason, it is useful for us to be able to look up users and groups in the LDAP directory and retrieve a list of them.

QlikView can have several kinds of Directory Service Providers (DSPs):

DSP type

Description

Active Directory

Connects to the Active Directory using LDAP calls—this is what we would have used by default in the Manage Users dialogs to retrieve users and groups. You can use either a fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) here—for example, LDAP://domain.local—or just the NetBIOS domain name—LDAP://DOMAIN. If you do use the FQDN, the DSC will resolve the NetBIOS name (in this case, DOMAIN) and use that as the DSP identifier. This means that any user identified as DOMAIN\USER will be linked with this DSP.

Custom Directory

A Custom Directory is a user and group...