vSZ 5.1.x Administrators - Active Directory

Hi James,

Check the below steps:

1. You need to create a group for the access on the SZ under Administration --> Admins and Roles --> Click ‘Create’ Under Groups.
2. Create a local user on the "Available Users" step and add it in the "Selected Users".
3. Add the AD under Administration --> Admins and Roles --> AAA --> Create -->.
4. Map the domain name "training.com" (my lab domain name), under "Realm".
5. Enable "Default Role Mapping" and map the SZ User Group create along with along SZ local user created.
6. You need to map the domain and the AD users  on the "Windows Domain Name".
7. Example for the domain training.com CN=Users,DC=training,DC=com
8. On the AD, fo to Run >> lpd.exe
9. Click on Connection >> Connect >> type localhost wits port 389.
10. Click on connection >> Bind >> Map the administrator user.
11. Click on View >> Tree >> add the base domain name. In my case it is CN=Users,DC=training,DC=com

Once done, test the authentication from the SZ>> Administration >> Admin and Roles >> AAA >>> Test AAA

I just got off the phone with Ruckus to figure this out as well.  For starters, the second answer given to you here is just weird/wrong, don't go that direction with running lpd.exe on the AD server.

What follows relates to release 5.2.0.0.699.

1. How do I actually add AD users or groups to 'Administrators'?

Review pages 426-427 of the Ruckus SmartZone 100 and Virtual SmartZone-Essentials Administrator Guide, 5.1.2.  Where I got stuck though is they had a typo on the AD Group name you have to create which I'll highlight below.

So here's how it works, and if you ask me, this is retarded compared to the way ZoneDirector did it, but at least it gets us back to what we had before.

Under Administration -> Admins and Roles, do the following:

AAA Tab:
 - Setup an AD entry just like you have listed above with Default Role Mapping off, port 389.

Administrators Tab:
 - Create a local user on the SZ, for example call it "SuperAdmins".  Put in some crazy long and difficult password as this will NEVER be used for actually signing.  It doesn't even matter if you remember it afterwards.

Groups Tab:
 - Create a group (Example call it "Super Admins Group" with all rights) and then assign the user you just created to this group (in this case, assign the user "SuperAdmins" to this group.)


Back on your AD server, do the following.
   - Create a group in AD called "Ruckus-WSG-User-[username]" (this is the typo on their docs, they have it listed as "Ruckus-WSG-[username]" which is wrong.)
      - As example, create the group "Ruckus-WSG-User-SuperAdmins"
   - Assign the users to this group that you want to have Super Admin Group access.

Back to your SZ, go to the AAA tab and test with a user, and it should be assigned the "Super Admin Group" (or whatever) Role.


2. How can I add a second Domain Controller?

- You can't for AD (currently.)  You can for Radius, but not for AD.  How fun!


3. Port 389 is essentially LDAP in plain text - if I choose port 636 (LDAPS) - it fails.  How do I secure comms to the Domain Controller?

- You can't.  We apparently lost that security feature in SZ.  You can have TLS encryption when you use AD for standard user authentication such as to authenticate to a portal, but not for the Administrator login to the web site.  Brilliant, right?  All we can do is complain to gain this feature back.

I found this topic accidentally and it reminded my unsuccessful fight for getting the AD-authentication working for management over a year ago for our vSZ cluster 5.1.2.0.302. I also had a ticket open then but it turned out that AD/LDAP is barely supported.

I would like to upgrade to 5.2 and then try once again if there are any changes and perhaps look for the above posts in this thread but I thought I'd put here some moments from the ticket as copy-paste's that I wrote then since I did some extensive testing to get it working and found "interesting" things. This is my first experience with Ruckus and it was a brand new setup.

1. The Administration\Admins and Roles\AAA server with type LDAP and the dialogue window has two mistakes:
1.1. "Admin Domain Name" is wrong, it is actually "Admin Distinguished Name" or shorter "Admin DN" as I saw here: 

https://support.ruckuswireless.com/articles/000009128?_ga=2.49082158.94637583.1577430772-1372812910.1568182478