Splunk Enterprise Security

Does Splunk Enterprise Security support version 2008-R2 / 2012 of Active Directory (or LDAP) for authentication?

leyip94105
New Member

Does anyone know if Splunk Enterprise Security supports Active Directory (or LDAP) for authentication, version 2008-R2 / 2012?

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esix_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Splunk Enterprise supports Windows AD / LDAP authentication for User and Group mappings.

See here : http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.2/Security/SetupuserauthenticationwithLDAP

sobrien
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Are you referring to authentication to the Splunk platform itself, or ingesting data from AD to populate identities in Enterprise Security?

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