Testing LDAP connections
There are cases when you can run into difficulties when configuring WebSphere to use LDAP directory as a user registry. In these cases, the first step is to isolate the problem by testing your LDAP connection.
For testing, you should try to connect to the LDAP server from the WebSphere machine. Test the LDAP connection without security, then test the connection with security (LDAPS) if you are planning to use that.
For testing purposes, you can use any LDAP client on the server machine, the ldapsearch command line utility from the IBM Directory Server distribution (part of the client), the ldapsearch command line utility from Lotus Domino, Netscape or Mozilla’s address book search, or Microsoft Outlook (Express) address ...
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