Edit domain controller

You can add a Domain Controller to use when authenticating and retrieving PMM user information.

Modify a Domain Controller

  1. Navigate to System > PMM Settings > Authentication Settings. The Authentication Settings page is displayed.
  2. In the Domain Controllers area, select the Domain Controller you wish to modify and click Edit. The Modify Domain Controller page appears.

Change the Overview details

The Overview area enables you to provide a name and optional notes for the Domain Controller. To edit these details:

  1. Move the mouse pointer over the Overview area, and click Click here to change these settings.
  2. Edit the Name if required. Secure Email Gateway provides a default name. Change this to something more meaningful, if required.
  3. Edit the Notes if required. You can insert, change, or delete text in this field, which is empty by default.
  4. Click Save.

Modify the NTLM Domain Controller

You must provide the name of the domain and, optionally, the Domain Controller that Secure Email Gateway will join. A valid Administrator and password for the domain must be supplied.

To modify the Domain Controller:

  1. Move the mouse pointer over the NTLM Domain Controller area and click Click here to change these settings .
  2. Enter the Fully Qualified Domain Name (for example, testdomain.com) and NetBIOS Domain Name (for example, testdomain) of the domain that you want the Gateway to join.
  3. Select the radio button to Automatically detect domain controllers or Use Domain Controller (entering the fully qualified domain name of the Domain Controller) .
  4. Ensure that both the Global Catalog and Standard LDAP check boxes are selected. The Gateway uses either port to communicate with the Domain Controller, and it is recommended that both are selected for optimum performance.
  5. Select the check box to Use SSL for communications between the Email Gateway and the Domain Controller, as required.
  6. Click Save. The summary will be updated with the new details.

Configure Mail Domains for the Domain Controller

The Mail Domains panel enables you to specify which mail domains are associated with the Domain Controller. When configuring a Domain Controller, you can define a list of mail domains with which the Domain Controller is to be associated. Secure Email Gateway determines which domain the Domain Controller is to use when PMM users login with their email address.

To configure Mail Domains:

  1. From the Mail Domains area, click Click here to change these settings.
  2. Select the mail domains served by the Domain Controller. You can select either All hosted domains or Selected hosted domains from the available list.
  3. Click Save. The Mail Domains panel is updated, indicating that PMM users with email addresses in the selected mail domains will be managed by the Domain Controller.

 
  • The list of available mail domains is configured on the Mail Domains and Routing page. See Specifying Hosted Domains for more information.
  • If there is more than one mail domain available, by default all mail domains are selected.

Change the User Name & Password for a Domain Controller

A user name and password can be provided for Domain Controller connections. The credentials are used for LDAP lookups of user information.

To change the credentials:

  1. Move the mouse pointer over the User Name & Password panel and click Click here to change these settings .
  2. Enter a valid User Name (for example, testdomain\administrator), and Password for the domain.

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    You are strongly recommended to use an account with password expiry disabled.
  3. Click Save. The summary will be updated with the new details.

Join a domain

  1. Click Join Domain in the task panel. The Join domain dialog appears.
  2. Enter a valid administrator User Name (for example, administrator) and administrator Password for the domain.
  3. Click Join.
  4. Save and Apply the configuration. You must apply changes to each of the Gateways configured as a group.

 
  • If the portal is configured on a remote peer, the Gateway must be a member of the domain on that peer.
  • Moving the mouse pointer over the Joined column in the Domains panel displays a tooltip indicating which peer is a member of the domain. The panel also indicates which domain the Gateway has joined in the Joined column.
  • If you change any configuration settings other than system time you must apply the configuration for the changes to take effect. If you use Peer Gateways (i.e. when multiple Gateways are peered), any configuration changes from a local Gateway can then be applied to all the peers at the same time. See Configure Peer Gateways for more information.