Tony, > Do you have to restart services after you make changes to the AREA LDAP > configurations?
Yes, although you can kill the arplugin process and armonitor should restart the plugin server. Given some ITSM installations take 30 minutes to restart, this is the best choice if in doubt, > Can you authenticate to multiple OU groups in the same AD? OU groups? Do you mean different sub-trees? I believe you can use a parent base DN and search down. > Is it ok to have multiple Configurations using the same Port number, > username, password etc? I don't see why not. Multiple configurations is the same plugin loaded X times on the BMC AREA Hub, I think. One of my colleagues wrote the following document that may be of use: http://www.javasystemsolutions.com/documentation/jss-configuring-BMC-AREA-LDAP.pdf John _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"