The 'authenticating user' credentials are set up in the Configuration tab of the LDAP settings in Strategy Intelligence Server configuration dialog box. These credentials are used by Strategy Intelligence Server when authenticating itself and running queries against the LDAP server. The Strategy Intelligence Server by default does not attempt to set the option to chase LDAP referrals explicitly. So, depending on the default action for the LDAP SDK used for integration of Strategy Intelligence Server and the LDAP server, referrals may be chased when returned in a search result.
In the Strategy Intelligence Server, administrators can opt to have Strategy Intelligence Server ignore referrals returned from the LDAP authentication server. This may be desirable where the 'referred to' server, does not support anonymous binding used when chasing the referral.
To activate this functionality in Strategy 2021 Update 6 and below, users must create an environment variable called MSTR_LDAP_REFERRALS and set the value for the environment variable to either 1 or 0. Note that if the MSTR_LDAP_REFERRALS variable does not exist, the default behavior is to chase the referrals.
In a Microsoft Windows environment, follow the following steps to set this environment variable:
In a Unix / Linux environment, users must follow the steps below to set this environment variable:
To activate this functionality in Strategy 2021 Update 7 and above this is controlled via Strategy Workstation.
