Adding Extranet Clients to VPNs
Retailers and enterprises can be extranet clients. Service providers can add extranet clients to VPNs with an LDAP client or SDX Admin. IT managers add extranet clients to their VPNs through Enterprise Manager Portal.
For information about adding extranet clients through Enterprise Manager Portal, see Chapter 24, Managing Services with Enterprise Manager Portal.
Two LDAP attributes specify information about extranet clients:
- The object classes umcRetailer and umcEnterprise have an LDAP attribute called ImportedExtranet that defines the DNs of the imported VPNs.
- The object class umcVPN has an attribute called extranetClient that defines the DNs of extranet clients of the VPN.
To use SDX Admin to add an extranet client:
The VPN pane appears (see Figure 29).
The Select Object dialog box appears and displays a list of subscribers.
- To navigate to a subordinate subscriber, double-click on a subscriber in the list.
- To navigate to a subscriber at a higher level in the directory, use the menu at the top of the Select Object dialog box.
- To select multiple options, shift-click or control-click the subscribers.
The extranet clients appear in the VPN pane.
The extranet clients appear in the Extranet Client field of the VPN pane.
- Click Save in the VPN pane.
- In the navigation pane, highlight the subscriber for whom you want to import the VPN.
The subscriber's pane appears.
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The Select Object dialog box appears and displays a list of subscribers.
- To navigate to a subordinate VPN, double-click on a subscriber in the list.
- To navigate to a VPN at a higher level in the directory, use the menu at the top of the Select Object dialog box.
- To select multiple options, shift-click or control-click the subscribers.
The VPN appears in the subscriber's pane.
The VPN appears in the Extranet Client field of the subscriber's pane.