6.17. Active Directory Integration

For Active Directory integration, the data is stored in the pfs/ directory. There are two important files: The joining of the Steelhead appliance to the domain and the communication towards the Domain Controllers.

Figure 6.94. Contents of the pfs directory

[~/sysdumps/CSH] edwin@t43>ls -al pfs            
total 9836
drwxr-xr-x   2 edwin  edwin      512 Sep 18 19:47 .
drwxr-xr-x  19 edwin  edwin    10240 Sep 18 19:47 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 edwin  edwin   916073 Aug  4 22:51 log.wb-EXAMPLE
-rw-r--r--   1 edwin  edwin     1628 Aug 25 21:16 log.winbindd
-rw-r--r--   1 edwin  edwin        0 May 31  2010 log.winbindd-dc-connect
-rw-r--r--   1 edwin  edwin        0 Jul 21  2010 log.winbindd-locator
-rw-r--r--   1 edwin  edwin   310610 Sep  8  2010 net_ads.out
-rw-r--r--   1 edwin  edwin   175287 Aug 25 21:17 smbd.log

The file net_ads.out contains the logs for when the Steelhead appliance gets joined to the domain. The most important data it is at the end:

Figure 6.95. Contents of the net_ads.out

[2010/09/08 16:42:25,  1] libnet/libnet_join.c:libnet_Join(1920)
  libnet_Join:
      libnet_JoinCtx: struct libnet_JoinCtx
          out: struct libnet_JoinCtx
              account_name             : NULL
              netbios_domain_name      : 'EXAMPLE'
              dns_domain_name          : 'EXAMPLE.ORG'
              forest_name              : 'EXAMPLE.ORG'
              dn                       : 'CN=csh,CN=Computers,DC=EXAMPLE,DC=ORG'
              domain_sid               : *
                  domain_sid               : S-1-5-21-1298361332-912839128-1298391823
              modified_config          : 0x00 (0)
              error_string             : NULL
              domain_is_ad             : 0x01 (1)
              result                   : WERR_OK
[2010/09/08 16:42:25,  2] utils/net.c:main(849)
  return code = 0
Using short domain name -- EXAMPLE
Joined 'CSH' to realm 'EXAMPLE.ORG'

This shows that the Steelhead was successfully joined to the Active Directory domain.

The file log.wb-EXAMPLE contains the logs of the communication to the domain controller.