Howto:ESTOS Metadirectory: Replication Filter Tweak
Summary
This article provides information about setting a filter which allows the replication of desired objects only.
Applies To
This information applies to
- ESTOS MetaDirectory 2
- Tested with v8 PBX platform only
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Problem Details
This article will explain how to avoid the presentation of non-user objects from Metadirectory. Metadirectory will replicate all PBX objects which means also system (_ADMIN_...), trunk, Boolean objects, etc....
Our goal is to only see "true" User objects.
Users browsing a directory searching for a Name should not find "invalid" entries such as those mentioned above.
PBX attribute "Hide from LDAP" will not work for Metadirectory.
Solution
Metadirectory allows field mappings customization through Regular Expressions.
A field not matching the Regular Expression can be set to blank.
A blank Primary Key field is not replicated and thus not presented outside Metadirectory.
Primary Key must be unique so a boolean field cannot be used (true/false) as filter.
In this example we can add a marker to H323-ID field to indicate "valid" User objects and discard all those objects not matching with a search for that prefix. Unfortunately is not possible to use this procedure the other way around as only not matching records can be set to blank.
Screenshots
[|PBX objects formatted to match replication filter.]
Above the h323 name is between square brackets and is configured as Primary Key.
We configure the regular expression to search for square brackets and remove them. Primary Key entries not matching the search criteria will be cleared.
Resulting view in a LDAP Browser.