Importing Users from AD

Importing Users from AD

  • Check if PAM360 is installed in a member server or a workgroup machine. Member servers will by default have connectivity to AD and if it is a workgroup machine then there should be a connectivity available from workgroup machine to primary domain controller.
  • Check if the PAM360 service is running with a service account.
  • Check if the PAM360 server has connectivity to the domain controller.
  • Check if the DOMAIN field of the import page contains the correct NETBIOS name in upper case.
  • Check if the FQDN supplied in Primary DNS name field is correct and reachable from PAM360 server.
  • Check if the customers Active Directory has SSL mode enabled. If so, then copy the SSL certificate of the domain into PAM360/bin directory and run the importCert.bat command to import the .cer file. For example, importCert.bat MEAD.cer.
  • Request the customer to get the certificate of Domain to run the above command. 
  • Unless importing one or few users, always use the "Fetch Groups and OU's" button at the bottom to fetch the actual Groups/OU's from AD and select them for import.
  • If you see the message "Users not imported" with a few users listed under it in red color, then it is definitely a permission issue. So change the login account used in the import page with a different account(preferably a domain admin) and try the import again.
  • While trying to import a group, if you see the message "Group list is too big to display", then stop the PAM360 service, edit the file named system_properties.conf present in PAM360/conf directory and look for the line domain.group.limit=2500. Change the value 250000, save the file, start the service again and try the Fetch Groups and OUs button again. Similarly for OU's check for domain.ou.limit=2500 change the number based on the customers AD size. 

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