ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 can integrate with Active Directory and NT domains as a source for systems, and even (in the case of Active Directory) as a source for the structure of the System Tree.
Active Directory synchronization
If your network runs Active Directory, you can use Active Directory synchronization to create, populate, and maintain part or all of the System Tree with Active Directory synchronization settings. Once defined, the System Tree is updated with any new systems (and sub-containers) in your Active Directory.
Active Directory integration allows you to:
• Synchronize with your Active Directory structure, by importing systems and the Active Directory sub-containers (as System Tree groups) and keeping them up-to-date with Active Directory. At each synchronization, both systems and the structure are updated in the System Tree to reflect the systems and structure of Active Directory.
• Import systems as a flat list from the Active Directory container (and its sub-containers) into the synchronized group.
• Control what to do with potential duplicate systems.
• Use the system description, which is imported from Active Directory with the systems.
In previous versions of ePolicy Orchestrator, there were the two tasks: Active Directory Import and Active Directory Discovery. Now, use this process to integrate the System Tree with your Active Directory systems structure:
1 Configure the synchronization settings on each group that is a mapping point in the System Tree. At the same location, you can configure whether to: 2
• Deploy agents to discovered systems.
• Delete systems from the System Tree when they are deleted from Active Directory.
• Allow or disallow duplicate entries of systems that already exist elsewhere in the System Tree. 3 Use the Synchronize Now action to import Active Directory systems (and possibly structure)
into the System Tree according to the synchronization settings. 4 Use an NT Domain/Active Directory Synchronization server task to regularly synchronize
the systems (and possibly the Active Directory structure) with the System Tree according
to the synchronization settings.
Global Threat Condition: Elevated
