dir sync

[aurfalien]

Hi,

Does any one have input on using zmexternaldirsync?

I'm trying to sync my external LDAP dir with Zimbra LDAP and auto provision mail boxes.

Understanding the Zimbra SOAPs so that I can extend our web app to to do this has proven too difficult.

My design so far;

1 - I create a user account within our Drupal based web site.
2 - Drupal then updates an OpenLDAP database.
3 - The script; zmexternaldirsync would then auto provision that user in Zimbra by syncing or updating OpenLDAP -> ZimbraLDAP ** I wish **

Any ideas?

[mmorse]

Sounds like you got off and running with it, looking forward to your wiki writup. (I haven't played with it personally in a while.)

Hi and thanks for the reply.

I found a work around using a script called zmexternaldirsync.

Since I feel this is a crucial function, I'll post a mini how to on getting a primary external directory to sync its users with Zimbra LDAP so that users are automatically provisioned in Zimbra when they are created in OpenLDAP for example.

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Others curious were talking about zmexternaldirsync (previously ZimbraSyncTool.pl) available in the source at ZimbraServer/src/bin/zmexternaldirsync with example configs under ZimbraServer/conf/externaldirsync

(We had decided against Bug 14772 - include zmexternaldirsync in build for a multitude of reasons.)

Still open: Bug 7235 - Auto Provision New Accounts with External LDAP