Creating an Outbound Connector

Create an outbound connector.

• Console
• CLI
• API

• 1. Open the navigation menu and click Storage. Click File Storage.
  2. Under Additional resources, click Outbound Connectors.
  3. (Optional) In the List scope section, under Compartment, select a compartment.
  4. Click Create Outbound Connector.
  5. In the Create Outbound Connector window, provide the following details:
     1. Outbound Connector name: The File Storage service creates a default name using OutboundConnector-YYYYMMDD-HHMM-SS. Optionally, change the default name for the connector. Avoid entering confidential information.
     2. Availability Domain: The first availability domain selected is used as default.
     3. Create in Compartment: Specify the compartment you want to create the connector in.
     4. Connector type: Only the LDAP Bind connector type is supported.
     5. Server DNS name and Port: Enter the DNS name and port of the endpoint to be used to connect using the LDAP bind account.
     6. Bind distinguished name: Enter the LDAP distinguished name of the bind account.
     7. Vault: Select the vault that contains the LDAP secret that you want to use.
     8. Select the secret and secret version. For more information about encryption, see Overview of Vault.
        Caution
        
        Be sure to back up vaults and keys. Deleting a vault and key otherwise means losing the ability to decrypt any resource or data that the key was used to encrypt. For more information, see Backing Up and Restoring Vaults and Keys.
     9. To tag the outbound connector, click Show tagging options.

        If you have permissions to create a resource, then you also have permissions to apply free-form tags to that resource. To apply a defined tag, you must have permissions to use the tag namespace. For more information about tagging, see Resource Tags. If you're not sure whether to apply tags, skip this option or ask an administrator. You can apply tags later.

  6. To create the outbound connector, click Create.
  7. (Optional) To save the configuration as a Resource Manager stack, click Save as stack. For more information, see Managing Stacks.

• Use the oci fs outbound-connector create_ldap_bind_connector command to create an outbound connector and specify LDAP connection details.

  oci fs outbound-connector create_ldap_bind_connector --availability-domain <availability_domain> --bind-distinguished-name <bind_distinguished_name> --compartment-id <compartment_OCID> --password-secret-id <vault_secret_OCID> --password-secret-version <vault_secret_version> --endpoints <file://endpoints.json>

  An example endpoints.json file follows:

  {
    "hostname": "hostname.example.com",
    "port": 686
  }
  

  For a complete list of flags and variable options for CLI commands, see the Command Line Reference.

• Use CreateOutboundConnector to create outbound connectors.

  For information about using the API and signing requests, see REST API documentation and Security Credentials. For information about SDKs, see SDKs and the CLI.