Active Directory Synchronizer - Automation and Scripting?

Active Directory Synchronizer - Automation and Scripting?

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Hi All,

New customer to the product and I have a question on functionality of the AD Synchronizer component.

We have thousands of servers in our environment and dozens of unique OU's in which these servers are contained. My hope is that instead of having to create an AD Sync session for each unique OU in order to properly map to a corresponding folder within RDM, that I could simply import all computer objects from a number of parent level server OU's and have the imported data automatically routed to a destination folder in RDM based on a string in the host name of the computer object such as 'pr' 'dev' 'qa', 'uat', 'st' etc. All of our servers following specific naming conventions so it would be easy for this to work.

I do not see an option to use a syntax or custom filter rules to achieve this. Is this something I am missing or just not possible at this time?

So that you understand, I am aware I could create a couple generic AD Sync import jobs higher in the AD hierarchy, the issue here is that it will pull a lot of extra irrelevant OU's and server objects into RDM creating more clutter and entries that I do not want. If I use AD Sync it is going to continue to recreate these entries in RDM every time it syncs.

I hope this helps provide some context on my question and that it makes sense.

Thanks all!

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Hi Corey,

The AD Synchronizer doesn't support multi-destination group based on the host name of computer object imported and to have multiple OU sources.

What you can do is a PowerShell script with the Active Directory cmdlets to get the objects and then use our RDM cmdlets to create the sessions with the informations from the AD objects.

Best regards,

Olivier Désalliers