LDAP User Provisioning

Committed: Fri Jan 24 12:15:08 2014 +0530 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- release-notes/en-US/Release_Notes.xml | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cloudstack-docs/blob/89be3abc/release-notes/en-US/Release_Notes.xml ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/release-notes/en-US/Release_Notes.xml b/release-notes/en-US/Release_Notes.xml index add46c3..9df3ed5 100644 --- a/release-notes/en-US/Release_Notes.xml +++ b/release-notes/en-US/Release_Notes.xml @@ -446,6 +446,14 @@ under the License. &PRODUCT; is provided using the MySQL replication capabilities. The steps to set up replication can be found in the MySQL documentation. +

+ LDAP User Provisioning + LDAP user provisioning has been enhanced by allowing user import from the configured + LDAP servers. You will be able to add multiple LDAP servers and selectively import LDAP + users. You can o filter by group name and import all the users within a group. After they + have been imported to &PRODUCT;, in contrast to manually adding them in previous releases, + users are allowed to directly log in to &PRODUCT; by using the LDAP credentials. +

Enhanced &PRODUCT; UI A complete UI makeover is implemented to enhance the usability and user experience in @@ -457,9 +465,10 @@ under the License.

Publishing Alert Using the Web ROOT Admin API In previous releases of &PRODUCT; code alerts are generated for &PRODUCT; services - (Usage service)only if they run on the same host as the Management Server. A new API has - been introduced in 4.3 so that alerts are generated and published though the following - services run on a separate host: + (Usage service) only if they run on the same host as the Management Server. A new API has + been introduced in 4.3, which can be used by the following services to generate and + publish. The services need not be running on the same host where the Management Server is + running. Any new services added to &PRODUCT;. @@ -471,6 +480,8 @@ under the License. Console Proxy and Secondary Storage VM services. + The main advantage of this feature is that the third party systems integrating with + &PRODUCT; will be able to utilize the Alert notification system publish alerts.

@@ -3481,7 +3492,7 @@ service cloudstack-agent start

- Reporting CPU Sockets + Publishing Alerts Using the Web ROOT Admin API @@ -3497,7 +3508,13 @@ service cloudstack-agent start generateAlert A new API has been added to generate and publish alerts for usage services. The usage services can be installed on a different host or the same host - where the Management Server is running. + where the Management Server is running. This API is available only to the Root + Admin. + + + listAlerts + To this existing API, a new response parameter has been added: name. An + alert can be searched on the basis of alert name.