topic Re: active directory auth: cannot connect to localhost:389 in Active IQ Unified Manager Discussions

active directory auth: cannot connect to localhost:389

pwl — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:35:30 GMT

hello folks

i'm getting a a "connection refused" error trying to use active directory authentication.

here's an extract from the log:

2012-02-07 09:40:30,617 EST INFO [com.netapp.wfa.ldap.LdapLoginModule] (http-0.0.0.0-443-1) Looking up user 'aadc\peter

.lees.admin' in LDAP servers

2012-02-07 09:40:31,647 EST ERROR [com.netapp.wfa.ldap.LdapLoginModule] (http-0.0.0.0-443-1) Failed to find user 'aadc\p

eter.lees.admin' using LDAP servers:

* ldap:/// - Connection refused: connect (localhost:389)

com.netapp.wfa.ldap.LdapException: Failed to find user 'aadc\peter.lees.admin' using LDAP servers:

* ldap:/// - Connection refused: connect (localhost:389)

at com.netapp.wfa.ldap.LdapWrapper.findUserInLdap(LdapWrapper.java:103)

at com.netapp.wfa.ldap.LdapLoginModule.validatePassword(LdapLoginModule.java:68)

[...]

is there some service that should be running on this windows 2008R2 server?

Re: active directory auth: cannot connect to localhost:389

hland — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:31:21 GMT

Hi Peter,

Are you sure the LDAP-server is correctly configured in WFA and reachable (firewall etc.)? It's probably falling back to localhost because the LDAP server isn't correctly configured?

Regards

Hendrik

Re: active directory auth: cannot connect to localhost:389

pwl — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:53:32 GMT

as per the installation & setup guide v1.4 (https://communities.netapp.com/docs/DOC-12839), the LDAP server is set to ldap:///

Re: active directory auth: cannot connect to localhost:389

dekel — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:13:56 GMT

Indeed there was a typo in the install doc .it should be

LDAP server URI formatted as:

ldap://<ldap-server-address>[:port]

Fixed in 1.1 setup & install doc