About Active Directory (AD) Support

Active Directory is a domain service that authenticates and authorizes users in a Windows environment.

In addition to selecting AD as the server type, you must also complete the following steps for AD-based authentication to work on the controller.

Edit the AD configuration file on the AD server to include the service user name.
For example,
On the controller web interface, select Administration > Admins and Roles > Administrators, and click Create to create an administrator account with super as the user name.

NOTE
Refer to Creating Administrator Accounts. In this example, AD can use User1 only.
Select Administration > Admins and Roles > Groups, and then assign an administrator role to the super administrator account.

NOTE
Refer to Creating User Groups .
When you add an AAA server for administrators, select Active Directory as the authentication server type.

NOTE
Refer to Configuring AP AAA Servers.
Test the AD server using the account username@super-login.

NOTE
The value of super-login depends on the realm configured for the AAA profile. Refer to Creating Administrator Accounts.