Knowledge Discovery 25.4
Document Security Administration Guide

# Retrieve Groups from OpenText Directory Services

This section describes how to retrieve user and group information from OpenText Directory Services (OTDS).

To retrieve users and groups from OTDS

1. Create an OAuth application in OTDS, and ensure you have the following information:

   - The client ID and secret for the new OAuth application.
   - The user name and password of an administrative user with read access to all users and groups.

2. Run the OAuth configuration tool that is supplied with OmniGroupServer.

   1. Open the OAuth tool configuration file, `oauth_tool.cfg`, in a text editor.

   2. In the `[Default]` section, set any SSL or proxy settings that are required to access OTDS.

      `SSLMethod` | The version of SSL/TLS to use.
      `ProxyHost` | The host name or IP address of the proxy server to use.
      `ProxyPort` | The port of the proxy server to use.

      For example:

          SSLMethod=NEGOTIATE

   3. In the `[OTDS]` section, set the following parameters:

      `TokenUrl` | Replace the placeholder `{OTDS-host}` with the hostname of your OTDS instance.
      `AppKey` | The application (client) ID that was provided when you created the OAuth application.
      `AppSecret` | The application (client) secret that was provided when you created the OAuth application.
      `CustomValue0` | The user name of an administrative user with read access to all users and groups.
      `CustomValue1` | The password of the administrative user.

   4. Open a command-line window and run the following command:

      `oauth_tool.exe oauth_tool.cfg OTDS`

      The OAuth configuration tool creates the files `oauth.cfg` and `oauth2_sites.bin`. When you configure OmniGroupServer in a later step, you will import the parameters from `oauth.cfg` into your task configuration.

3. Open the OmniGroupServer configuration file.

4. In the `[Repositories]` section, create a new repository. For example:

       [Repositories]
       Number=1
       0=OTDS

       [OTDS]

5. Include the OAuth configuration parameters necessary to authenticate with OTDS. For example:

       [OTDS] < "oauth.cfg" [OAUTH]

6. Set the following configuration parameters:

   `GroupServerLibrary` | The library file that allows the group server to access the repository. Use the library `ogs_otds`.
   `OTDSRestApiUrl` | The base URL of the OpenText Directory Services (OTDS) REST API.
   `SSLMethod` | The SSL/TLS version to use.

   For example:

       [OTDS] < "oauth.cfg" [OAUTH]
       GroupServerLibrary=ogs_otds
       OTDSRestApiUrl=https://otds.example.com/otdsws/rest/
       SSLMethod=negotiate

   For a complete list of configuration parameters that you can use, refer to the OmniGroupServer Reference.

7. Save and close the OmniGroupServer configuration file.

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Product: Knowledge Discovery 25.4

Topic Title: Retrieve Groups from OpenText Directory Services