How to make an LDAP request from an external client

[Janhol]

We are looking into using Jitterbit as an LDAP proxy and I need some help in setting this up. What I want to do is make it possible for an external system to call a Jitterbit process using https with a username as password. The Jitterbit server will then have to perform an LDAP lookup with this username as parameter using the attribute "sAMAccountname". In case the username exists, I will perform other LDAP calls and finally return some LDAP attributes the the caller.

What is the best way to set this up?

</Jan>

[Janhol]

I see that I forgot to mention it, but the Jitterbit server will make an LDAP search within a Microsoft AD...

</Jan>

[emanuel]

How would the user name and password be provided?

You would use an HTTP EndPoint for this. You would have to decide what the format should be for the request/response and use it as a source/target to a Jitterbit transformation. If the request/response is very simple you could just parse it in a script and provide the response in a variable. You can use either an LDAP -> (something) transformation or if your lookup is simple you could use LdapConnect/LdapSearch in a script. See the documentation of those methods.

/Cheers
Emanuel

[Janhol]

The idea was to provide the username and password as incoming url parameters

</Jan>

[emanuel]

Those are available using $jitterbit.networking.http.query.* variables (that would be eg $jitterbit.networking.http.query.username and $jitterbit.networking.http.query.password). I don't remember if that feature made it into the community version or not but you could try it. Otherwise you could have them send it as part of the request.

/Emanuel