Technical Tip: Consideration of creating Active Directory source while using Discovery Feature
Description
This article describes the prerequisite for creating Active Directory source while using Discovery Feature.
Scope
FortiPAM.
Solution
Discovery feature provides the opportunity to the following sources:
- Active Directory
- Unix
- FortiOS
Active Directory as a source will be covered in this article.
Generally, if the target and secret are configured correctly in advance, the Target and Credential give the options to select the precreated target and secret. For example:
 
However, if the target is not created properly with the correct template, the target will not be shown as expected.
 
Even if the target and the secret are being created manually, it might end up showing the error, as follows:
'Source (LDAP). FortiPAM encountered a problem, try again!'
In order to resolve the error, the Template setting needs to be checked under Target. In this failure scenario, the Default Template is being selected as a Windows Machine, which does not contain Domain-Controller, Domain . Hence, both Domain-Controller and Domain are prerequisites for creating Active Directory as a Discovery source.
 
After correcting the Default Template from Windows Machine to Windows Domain Account, the scan has successfully completed as follows:
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