Splunk integrating with Active Directory(AD) server?

[clyde772]

I looked at the Using LDAP in Splunk Manual. How can I use AD instead of LDAP?

[dwaddle]

For practical purposes, AD is LDAP. (Albeit, with Microsoft's TOTALLY WONDERFUL nonstandard extensions ... embrace, extend, ... extinguish?) You can connect Splunk to your AD servers just fine -- however, for simplicity, I would recommend using an AD Global Catalog server/port.