Starting in Strategy 2021 Update 7 and newer, the following environmental variables have been moved to the LDAP settings under the Advanced section of the Configure Directory Service dialog in Workstation.
- The MSTR_LDAP_REFERRALS environment variable has been moved to the Allow LDAP Referral Chasing in search setting.
- This setting indicates whether to ignore referrals returned from the LDAP authentication server during LDAP searches.
- This setting is selected by default, so that referrals are used.
- If this setting is unselected, referrals are ignored.
- The MSTR_NT_WITH_LDAP_ALLOW_LOGIN environment variable has been moved to the new Allow NT login if LDAP user cannot be found setting.
- This setting indicates whether to allow Strategy windows login, integrated with LDAP, if the Windows user is not found in the ADS/LDAP repository.
- This setting is unselected by default. This means the Strategy Windows login fails if the Windows user is not found in the ADS/LDAP repository.
- If this setting is unselected, the Strategy Windows login does NOT fail if the user is not found in the ADS/LDAP repository.
- The MSTR_LDAP_SEARCH_LIMIT environment variable has been moved to the new Search Limit during Batch Import setting.
- This setting controls the LDAP page size of the LDAP searches.
- The default value is 1000.
- If set to 0, the page size is unlimited.
- The MSI_LDAP_NO_LINK_TO_PREDEFINED environment variable has been moved to the new Allow linking LDAP users/groups to predefined Strategy users/groups setting.
- This setting indicates whether LDAP users can link to predefined Strategy user accounts and whether LDAP groups are allowed to link to predefined Strategy groups.
- The default is unselected, so that LDAP users and groups are NOT linked to predefined Strategy user accounts and and groups
- If this setting is selected, LDAP users can link to predefined Strategy user accounts and LDAP groups can link to predefined Strategy groups.
When the Intelligence server starts for the first time, the environment variable values are synched to the LDAP settings of the server definition used by that Intelligence server. This sync occurs once across all Intelligence servers that use the same server definition.
See the following knowledge base articles for more information about environment variables in previous Strategy releases:
- MSTR_LDAP_REFERRALS setting: KB15655
- MSTR_LDAP_SEARCH_LIMIT and MSI_LDAP_NO_LINK_TO_PREDEFINED: KB44813
