For Partner Institutions

LDAP Authentication

Things to Set Up/Configure on Your End

  • enable SSL on your LDAP server
  • create an account we can use to look up a user’s first and last names, user id, and email address (if you keep track of all of your users’ email addresses)
  • if your LDAP server is firewalled, you will need to allow all IP addresses of our clustered VCL web servers to access tcp port 636 on your LDAP server:
    • 152.1.227.240
    • 152.1.227.241
    • 152.1.227.242
    • 152.1.227.243
    • 152.1.227.162
    • 152.1.227.163
    • 152.1.227.164

VCL Templates (Skins)

To provide a template or “skin”, we need an html template. There are a few parts of the administrative areas of the site that can generate some really wide tables. If you want your template to look normal for those areas, it will need to be a variable width template to handle the horizontal scrolling. Additionally, there must be either 2 table cells in the middle of the page (one for the menu, one for the main content) or 2 div areas next to each other in the middle of the page.