Installation LDAP server on OpenDS and ApacheDS in JIRA (Windows Environment)

This page contains an example of how to install/configure LDAP server on OpenDS and ApacheDS based in Windows environment in JIRA.

Comparison between OpenDS and ApacheDS in terms of Specifications and Offered Features

	OpenDS	ApacheDS
Licensing	Open Source and Free	Open Source and Free
Language Written	Java	Java
Supported Environment	Linux and UNIX distributions, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X,	Linux and UNIX distributions, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X,
Download Link	https://opends.java.net/public/downloads_index.html	http://directory.apache.org/apacheds/downloads.html
Installation Method	Installer Archive zip	Installer Archive zip You will need to download and install Apache Directory Studio which is a Eclipse tool act as the LDAP Browser/Editor in order to use ApacheDS
Java Platform	Java Runtime Environment 1.5 and above	Java Runtime Environment 1.6 and above
Offered Features	Management of recurrent and scheduled tasks Monitoring of data in the Control Panel Collation matching rules for I18N Assured replication Configuration of replication groups	The Apache Directory Server is an embeddable LDAP server implemented in pure Java. It has several features that make it unique among LDAP servers. Some of these featurea are as follows: Designed as an LDAP and X.500 platform; plugable components and subsystems make ApacheDS extremely modular and ideal for experiments with various aspects of the LDAP protocol. The server's frontend is completely separable from its backend and vice-versa making it very flexible for implementing virtual directories, proxy servers and gateways to X.500 directories. Several backends can be implemented and plugged into the server's partition nexus. The server supports a BTree based partition out of the box but any backing store can be used to implement a partition as long as it conforms to interfaces. The server exposes aspects of administration via a special system backend. LDAP can be used to manage these concerns through the system naming context at ou=system. The server contains a server side JNDI LDAP provider as the facade for the entire backend subsystem. JNDI operations are directly translated by this provider into operations against the nexus and the target partitions storing server entries. The server's networking code, MINA (Multipurpose Infrastructure for Network Applications) was designed for pluggable protocol providers, of all sorts and not just LDAP. MINA gives ApacheDS the ability to handle large amounts of concurrency. LDAP Stored Procedures and Triggers are scheduled for the next major version of ApacheDS. LDAPv3 compatible certified by the OpenGroup
Unique Usage Point	Setup process is a breeze and straightforward since mostly is already pre-configured Love the Control Panel GUI interface which is easy to understand and very user friendly Suitable for beginner that are new to LDAP environment	Offered Apache Directory Studio act as a powerful LDAP IDE (similar like Eclipse, Netbeans) which is useful when it comes to advanced configuration and debugging High scalability and flexibility in terms of implementation

Basically both of these LDAP directory server environment it is quite similar in terms of specification and supported environment too as is widely available for almost all operating system since it is both running in Java based application. Best of all it is open source and free.

Installation

This is based in Windows Environment only

OpenDS

Download OpenDS 2.2 Update 1 archive zip and extract it out to a particular location
Run setup.bat file and then basically follow either one of the tutorial below to setup your LDAP server
Video tutorial Document tutorial
https://java.net/projects/opends/pages/2_4_OverviewOfTheQuickSetupTool

ApacheDS

Download ApacheDS 2.0.0-M13 and Apache Directory Studio 2.0.0-M7 either 32-bit or 64-Bit
Install ApacheDS first with the installation wizard then do the same for Apache Directory Studio (pretty straightforward)
After that launch Apache Directory Studio, you can basically follow the instruction to create a LDAP server in here: http://directory.apache.org/studio/users-guide/ldap_browser/gettingstarted_create_connection.html

Setting it up with JIRA

Setup Environment:

OpenDS	ApacheDS
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit JIRA 5.2.11 Standalone connected to PostgresSQL 8.4 database JRE 1.6 OpenDS 2.2 Update 1	Windows 7 Professional 64-bit JIRA 5.2.11 Standalone connected to PostgresSQL 8.4 database JRE 1.6 ApacheDS 2.0.0-M13 Apache Directory Studio 2.0.0-M

General Setup Guidelines

Setup LDAP server in both OpenDS and ApacheDS (refer the installation instruction above)
Configure the users and groups in both server
Fresh install JIRA 5.2.11 connected with a fresh empty Postgres database
Go to Administrator > Users > User Directories > Add Directory
Choose Directory Type: LDAP and select Apache Directory Server 1.5.x for ApacheDS and OpenDS for OpenDS
Fill up all other required field: Name, Directory Hostname, Port and Base DN
Select Read Only as the LDAP Permissions

Make sure the attributes and object class you set in your LDAP server is correctly match the attributes that you bind in JIRA (under User and Group Schema Settings).

Example:

The default bind user name attribute for OpenDS in JIRA(User Schema Settings) is uid so in your OpenDS LDAP server you have to set your username under user id attribute.

The default bind user name attribute for ApacheDS in JIRA(User Schema Settings) is cn so in your ApacheDS LDAP server you have to set your username under common name attribute.