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9300 & 9200 Series - LDAP NetClock® Products Download PDF What it Means to You: - Supports enterprise directory server
- Centralized user authentication and administration improves network management, regulatory compliance, and security
Why LDAP? - Perhaps best known for its use with Windows Active Directory, LDAP also supports Linux.
- LDAP allows standards-based centralized authentication of users.
- LDAP is a connection-oriented, message-based protocol developed to support email directories on the Internet.
- Using LDAP improves IT security practices compared to administering passwords on each target system.
| Introduction Authentication of network device users is increasingly important to support IT security and regulatory compliance. Spectracom’s NetClock® products support up to 16 local user accounts and can, as a standard feature, also centrally authenticate to enterprise directory servers via Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). 
How Does NetClock Support LDAP? - LDAP v3 (RFC 3377) or LDAP v2 (RFC 1777), both for Active Directory or openLDAP
- Simple authentication with or without SSL
- User ID login stored in NetClock unit; password checked in LDAP server
- LDAP over SSL – LDAPS – TCP Port 636
- LDAP over TLS (RFC 2246), encrypted or non-encrypted
- Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM)-based interface
- Binding to directory server with or without credentials
- NetClock products support up to 5 LDAP servers (one master directory server and four replication directory servers — all on the same directory system)
- Login events are logged in the Auth Log; user activity is logged in the Journal Log
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