SIP-T800 IP Phone User Manual
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4.3.3 LDAP configuration
4.3.3.1 Function Description
LDAP (Light Directory Access Protocol, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is an
application layer protocol running on an IP network that provides a series of functions
for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services. Simply put,
LDAP is a fast way to get centralized static data about people or resources. LDAP is
most useful for information stored in this way: data needs to be read from different
locations, but does not need to be updated frequently. LDAP is very effective for
storing the phone book and organization chart of company employees, and it is
especially convenient for querying information.
For example: According to the tree structure, the root of the tree is the company name,
and each department can be logically branched underneath, and each employee can
be branched out under the department, and contacts can be retrieved within a certain
range according to specific rules, such as the name of a company’s hardware
department. Including "J" employees, etc.
You can configure the phone to connect to an LDAP server that supports LDAPv2 or
LDAPv3. The phone supports the following LDAP servers:
Microsoft Active Directory
Sun ONE Directory Server
Open LDAP Directory Server
Microsoft Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM)
The biggest advantage of LDAP is that users can quickly find contacts from the LDAP
server, without the need to maintain a local phone book. The contact information
returned by the LDAP server is read-only. Users can call LDAP contacts but cannot
add, edit or delete LDAP contacts. The administrator can configure LDAP query filter
conditions on the phone, such as the number of contacts displayed, the information
returned, and how to sort contacts. How to perform LDAP search on the SIP-T800
series IP phone:
