This tool validates the accuracy of the LDAP properties represented in a sitedefault.yaml file by connecting to the LDAP server and fetching some of the Users and Groups attributes. When finished, the tool displays a message that indicates if the validation was successful or not. If the tool fails to validate connection using the settings in the provided sitedefault.yaml file, a non-zero code is returned. You must run the tool as an Administrator.
Important: This tool validates the LDAP settings in the sitedefault.yaml file only. It does not validate the entire sitedefault.yaml file. If you use a sitedefault.yaml file, this tool indicates if the tested LDAP settings are correct. However, that is still not a full guarantee of success since the tool is not able to check every parameter in the sitedefault.yaml file for accuracy.
Note: SAS recommends that you do not use the sitedefault.yaml file for the initial deployment of your SAS Viya platform software. For more information, see Add a sitedefault File to Your Deployment.
The validator tool requires Python 3.6 or higher.
SAS Viya ARK tools require third-party packages be installed before use. All required packages can be installed using the
provided requirements.txt:
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
Download the latest version of this tool and update required packages with every new software order.
The following command provides usage details:
python3 viya-ark.py ldap_validator --help
The following example executes the LDAP Validation script against the specified sitedefault.yaml.
python3 viya-ark.py ldap_validator -s /path/to/sitedefault.yaml
The tool generates a plain text log file,`ldap_validator_.log.