Can we Update the LDAP credentials outside of the GUI?

Products

• CA Release Automation - Release Operations Center (Nolio)
• CA Release Automation - DataManagement Server (Nolio)

Issue/Introduction

We have a need to update the LDAP connection Users Password occasionally for security reasons.    Is there a way to change password configuration for LDAP account connections in CA Release Automation through a configuration file on the server or otherwise outside of updating directly in the GUI?  

 

Environment

Release : 6.6

Component : CA RELEASE AUTOMATION RELEASE OPERATIONS CENTER

Resolution

1. Find the LDAP server "id" (to be used in the second call) with:

curl -X GET --header "Accept: /" -u superuser:suser "http://yourserver.net:8080/datamanagement/ra/administration/v5/directory-servers"

This will return something like the following.  We need the ID value as shown at the bottom: 

_{

  _{"list": [}

    _{

      _{"directoryServerConnection": {}

        _{"adminUserName": "[email protected]",}

        _{"isSSL": false,}

        _{"directoryServerType": "ACTIVE_DIRECTORY",}

        _{"adminPassword": "F89AE8809815F0AD08D7116CA9BE123E",}

        _{"serverName": "myadservername",}

        _{"domainName": "stegr04.te.com",}

        _{"serverPort": 389}

      _},

      _{"directoryServerAuth": {}

        _{"groupFilter": "(|(member={0})(uniquemember={0}))",}

        _{"userSearchBase": "ou=people,ou=system",}

        _{"userFilter": "uid={0}",}

        _{"groupSearchBase": "ou=groups,ou=system"}

      _},

      _{"directoryServerImportDetails": {}

        _{"userSearchPattern": "cn={0}*",}

        _{"groupSearchPattern": "cn={0}*"}

      _},

      _{"serverAttributeMapping": {}

        _{"email": "mail",}

        _{"firstName": "givenName",}

        _{"lastName": "sn",}

        _{"uniqueUserName": "userPrincipalName"}

      _},

      _{"name": "stegr04.te.com",}

      _{"id": "1"}

    _}

  _]

_}

2. Use the ID for the directory server, in this case, "1" and place the ID after /datamanagement/a/administration/v5/directory-servers/ as shown in the following PATCH REST api call example:

curl -s -X PATCH 'http://yourserver:8080/datamanagement/a/administration/v5/directory-servers/1' --header "Accept: application/json" -u superuser:suser --data-binary '{"directoryServerConnection":{"adminPassword":"MYNEWPASSWD","isSSL":false},"directoryServerAuth":{},"directoryServerImportDetails":{},"serverAttributeMapping":{}}' --compressed --insecure -H 'Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8'

the data-binary piece, prettified, is this:

_{{
  "directoryServerConnection":{
    "adminPassword":"myldappasswd",
    "isSSL":false
  },
  "directoryServerAuth":{},
  "directoryServerImportDetails":{},
  "serverAttributeMapping":{}
}}