{"id":1003,"date":"2012-05-22T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2012-05-22T07:36:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T11:36:12","slug":"cisco-ucs-and-default-authentication-domains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/virtualization\/cisco-ucs-and-default-authentication-domains\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco UCS and Default Authentication Domains"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve recently been working with Cisco UCS — and more specifically the UCS Powertool (the powershell management component). Initially, my scripts were using a local account in UCSM for authentication. However, after changing the “Default Authentication Realm” from Local to LDAP (see screenshot below), I could no longer authenticate using a local account in my script<\/p>\n

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Using an account from the configured default realm worked — which makes plenty of sense as this is the provider UCS uses for authentication by default. \u00a0However, I wanted to be able to specify the authentication realm in my scripts and override the default if necessary.<\/p>\n

I had an idea on how to attempt this configuration while looking at the remotely authenticated user section. \u00a0You’ll notice in the screenshot below that I have a remotely connected LDAP user with a prefix of ucs-ldap22\\<\/strong><\/font> (its at the bottom of the image).<\/p>\n

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Yes, that’s right. \u00a0UCS hyphen NameOfAuthenticationDomain backslash UserName<\/strong><\/font>. \u00a0I created an authentication domain named local, which maps to the local authentication provider, and then attempted to Connect-UCS specifying the username in the format ucs-local\\myUserID — SUCCESS! \u00a0 \u00a0Just thought I’d share this information in case anyone else has a similar need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve recently been working with Cisco UCS — and more specifically the UCS Powertool (the powershell management component). Initially, my scripts were using a local account in UCSM for authentication. However, after changing the “Default Authentication Realm” from Local to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}