From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Loren Cain >We are building a new TSM installation for a client and I have been >asked if TSM can use LDAP to authenticate the admin userids. They >don't want to have to maintain a separate userid/password mechanism >just for the TSM servers if they can avoid it. > >I have never seen anything that leads me to believe this is possible, >but I've also never seen anything that says it isn't. Unfortunately, >searches for keywords like "ldap" in the list archives and support site >results in many, many hits on how to back up ldap, but not on how >or whether to use it.
At this time, TSM strictly uses its own authentication system and nothing else. At the IBM Storage Symposium this summer, it was announced that the TSM development group was planning to allow for LDAP authentication to the TSM server and clients "sometime in the future". As with all things IBM, this may come about next week, or next year, or never. Quite frankly, as a professional backup/recovery engineer, I don't want others mucking about with *my* installations without my okey-dokey. That way madness lies. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2005 IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) AIX Berbee Information Networks Office 262.521.5627
