Adding group manager via LDAP

[othomas1]

Good evening all,

I have users and groups coming in via LDAP. The user records have managers associated with them. However, the groups I’m importing are not bringing the manager over. 

I have a “managed_by” field on the group import set table, as well as in my attributes but the manager filed remains empty on group records. My transform script is set and the field length of the managed_by field is 1000 characters long. Does anyone have experience setting the manager field on groups imported via LDAP? I would greatly appreciate anyone willing to share an experience or two.

[Matthew Glenn]

That + may be misleading. It's not going to do anything for groups so it's behaving as it should.

If you click on the actual name of the group on the left, next to the + icon, give it a few seconds seconds and the details for the group that your LDAP Server is configured to pull will appear on the right. 

Similarly, if you know the full distinguished name for one of your groups, you can put it in the "Distinguished Name" field where you have "managedBy" and hit search. A Distinguished Name would be something like "CN=GroupNAME,OU=IT,DC=DOMAIN,DC=ORG"

Going either of those routes, do you see the manager attribute there on the right?

[othomas1]

Hello Matthew,

I will be able to let you know shortly, im testing this out now.

[othomas1]

After clicking on the actual name of the group, on the right, no manager attribute is listed.

[Matthew Glenn]

This tells me that either there is no manager attribute on the group(s), or the account you're querying LDAP with doesn't have access to read that attribute. Can you manually connect to AD and verify?

[othomas1]

Im working with a third party so i cannot personally connect to verify, but i do suspect the groups dont have the manager attributes.