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Does illiad run on top of something (IIS, Tomcat etc)

On 3/28/14, 9:24 AM, "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Yes, I think so. But narrowing that down has been the challenge and it's
>extremely difficult to put the blame squarely in one corner.
>So, my question has been what exactly is the connectivity issue. Is it
>W2008, Illiad or LDAP?
>
>Since it works on port 389 I'd like to rule out ILLiad but I'm struck by
>how a refresh on the browser allows the authentication.
>The windows server and LDAP are managed by different groups, and are
>different stacks, windows 2008 server vs Novell on linux.
>Since LDAP is binding I assume the problem is with the Windows
>configuration or certificate, or store.
>
>To answer your last questions.
>The servers are in the same data center, and an ldapadmin test from the
>windows server is successful.
>This is a new Windows server with the latest version of ILLiad. We bumped
>up servers from W2003 to W2008
>There's not much revealing in the logs, folks from Atlas System and OCLC
>have looked at them.
>
>Thanks
>
>
>
>On 3/28/14 1:08 AM, "Riley Childs" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>I think it is a connectivity problem, are there servers located in the
>>same data center, or on the same server?
>>
>>Riley Childs
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>>Charlotte United Christian Academy
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>>From: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: ?3/?27/?2014 5:24 PM
>>To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] ILLiad and LDAP SSL connection issue
>>
>>Thanks, Forgot to mention that.
>>We have the certificates in a Trusted Certificate store on the W2008
>>server that resolved the cert errors we were initially getting.
>>
>>I'm not sure what 'binding with a service account with Domain Admin
>>privileges' means in this case.
>>Our LDAP is not AD, but Novell eDirectory (if that matters).
>>Also, the bind to LDAP is successful; I would think an error at that
>>level
>>would throw an error rather than getting dropped on the response.
>>
>>
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>>On 3/27/14 4:48 PM, "Riley Childs" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>>Make sure the Active Directory SSL certificate is in the keystore of
>>>whatever Illiad runs on and you are binding with a service account with
>>>Domain Admin privs.
>>>
>>>Riley Childs
>>>Student
>>>Asst. Head of IT Services
>>>Charlotte United Christian Academy
>>>(704) 497-2086
>>>RileyChilds.net
>>>Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
>>>________________________________
>>>From: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>>>Sent: ?3/?27/?2014 2:11 PM
>>>To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>>>Subject: [CODE4LIB] ILLiad and LDAP SSL connection issue
>>>
>>>We have a strange problem with ILLiad, LDAP and a Windows 2008 server
>>>using SSL on port 636.
>>>
>>>When I view the illiad logs it's clear the authentication only partially
>>>completes as the request is sent, ldap binds/authenticates, but the
>>>authentication isn't received by illiad.
>>>The illiad log reports a time out. The odd thing is that the user can
>>>sometimes click the submit button again, or even just refresh the login
>>>page, and the authentication succeeds with the user getting to their
>>>ILLiad home page.
>>>
>>>When I say that LDAP authenticates I mean we see the results on the
>>>logs,
>>>and of course, that strangeness where hitting the refresh or submit
>>>button takes a user to their home page. Had they not hit refresh or
>>>re-submit, we'd see the timeout.
>>>
>>>We have no problems using non-ssl on 389 by the way.
>>>Our Ldap server is Novell eDirectory server (now NetIQ) v8.8 sp5 on SLES
>>>
>>>Any ideas would be really helpful.
>>>Thanks
>>>Eric
>>>
>>>
>>>
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