Here we explain how to integrate LDAP between SugarCRM  Lotus Foundations so that Lotus Foundations user account can login to SugarCRM without creating the new account into SugarCRM manually.

If you haven’t done to install SugarCRM on Lotus Foundations,

please go to here to download the install package

And, please check here for SugarCRM installation guide on Lotus Foundations server

also,  here for SugarCRM install package for Lotus Foundations ? SugarCRM Setup Wizard.

1. Check your Louts Foundations LDAP Base DN. The LDAP Base DN supposes to be like below
   ou=users,dc=domain,dc=com

   For example, if your server name is lfs.mydomain.net,
   then Base DN is ou=users,dc=mydomain,dc=net

   If you want to test LDAP connection by using LDAP Client such as JXplorer(Open Source LDAP Client), the configuration will become like below

   Host:  server ip address
   Port: 389
   Protocol:LDAP v2
   Base DN: ou=users,dc=mydomain,dc=net
   Level: User + Password
   User DN: uid=root,ou=users,dc=mydomain,dc=net
   Password: root password

   

   Example for LDAP Client

2. Log-in to SugarCRM as administrator
3. Click [Admin] link from top-right corner
   

   Admin Link of SugarCRM

4. Click [Password Management] link from Admin Page
   

   Password Management Link of SugarCRM

5. Check [LDAP Support] checkbox
6. Configure like below
   Enable LDAP Authentication: YES
   Server:  IP_ADDRESS
   Port Number: 389
   User DN: ou=users,dc=caicorp,dc=com
   User Filter:
   Bind Attribute: dn
   Login Attribute: uid
   Group Membership:
   Authentication:
   Auto Create Users: YES
   Encryption Key:
   

   LDAP configuration on SugarCRM

7. Click [Save] button

That’s all.

Please test if you can log-in as Lotus Foundations user.

Here we explain how to set up the SugarCRM CE 6.0.0 after installation of SugarCRM on Lotus Foundations finished.

If you haven’t done to install SugarCRM on Lotus Foundations,

please go to here to download the install package

and

please check here for SugarCRM installation guide on Lotus Foundations server.

Also after all this setup wizard, you might want to check here for integration between SugarCRM and Lotus Foundations LDAP.

1. Access to “http://<Your IP Address>/~sugarcrm/”
   <Your IP Address> take place with your ip address or host name of Lotus Foundations server.
   

   First page of SugarCRM

   Choose your language, and then Click Next button.

2. Click Next button
   

   Ready to set up SugarCRM?

3. After reading License Acceptance, check “I Accept” checkbox, and then Click Next button
   

   Lisence agreement of SugarCRM

   If you got the warning message window like below,

   

   System Check Acceptance

   Please check if “Web server” configuration of Lotus Foundation server is like below. Then restart “Web Server” and “Secure Web Server” by toggling the radio button status between [Enable] and [Disable] and save twice.
   Web Server: [Enable] or [Only Trusted Hotes]
   Secure Web Server: [Enable] or [Only Trusted Hotes]
   MySQL Server: [Enable]
   Users’ personal home pages: [Enable] or [Only Trusted Hotes]
   Content filtering: [Disable]

   

   Configure web server settings on Lotus Foundations

4. For this setup wizard guide, simply select “Typical Install”, and then Click Next
   

   Choose Install Type of SugarCRM

5. Click Next
   

   SugarCRM Database Type

6. Enter Database Administrator Username and Datbase Admin Password.
   Here simply enter Lotus Foundations “root” and root’s password
   Don’t need to change the default value of Database Name and Host Name if you are not familiar with this.
   

   Provide Database Name of SugarCRM

   Then, Click Next.
   After pop up the message regarding “Verifying DB Credentials”, Click “I Accept”
   
   

7. Enter SugarCRM Administrator User name and password, Click Next
   

   Identify Administration User of SugarCRM

8. Click Install
   

   Confirm Settings of SugarCRM

9. Click Next
   

   Perform Setup of SugarCRM

10. Register your information. In our case, Just click Next because of demo.
    

    Registration page of SugarCRM

11. Could you get the web page below? Congratulations!! SugarCRM setup is done!
    

    SugarCRM login page

    Now you can login as administrator which you created in step 7.

Do you want to integrate SugarCRM with Lotus Foundations LDAP account?

It is very simple! Please check here for LDAP integration configuration.

Here we explain how to install the SugarCRM (CE Version 6.0) install package to Lotus Foundations.

You can download “SugarCRM CE Version 6.0″ install package for Lotus Foundations from here.

After you complete the installation below, you might be also interested in here for setting up your SugarCRM with Setup Wizard.

1. Download the SugarCRM package file from here.
2. Copy the “ext-sugarcrm-CE6.pkg” file to autoinstall folder of SugarCRM.
   

   Put the package file to autoinstall folder

3. Go to Lotus Foundations Web Config page.
4. Click “Software Update”.
5. Click “Add-ons” tab.
6. Click “All Available Packages” from “Add-ons” page.
7. Click “Next Page” arrow until you can find “SugarCRM CE6.0 Addon (On Disk: Team autoinstall/ext-sugarcrm-CE6.pkg)”
   

   Find Package from Add-ons page

8. Click “Quick Install” button from “Actions” on right side.
9. Installation starts. If nothing appears, Click “Software Update” link from left navigation.
   

   Progress of installing SugarCRM PHP

10. After installation finish, click “Acknowledge” button.
    

    Finishing installation of SugarCRM core

11. Go to “Web Server Setup” page by clicking “Web Server” on left navigation.
12. Confirm your web server configuration is like below
    Web Server: [Enable] or [Only Trusted Hotes]
    Secure Web Server: [Enable] or [Only Trusted Hotes]
    MySQL Server: [Enable]
    Users’ personal home pages: [Enable] or [Only Trusted Hotes]
    Content filtering: [Disable]
    

    Configure web server settings on Lotus Foundations

    Then, Click “Save Changes”

13. Open the browser. and type “http://<Your IP Address >/~sugarcrm/”
    <Your IP Address> takes place with your ip address or host name of Lotus Foundations
14. If you could see the web page like below, Congratulations!! You success to install SugarCRM CE 6.0 on Lotus Foundations
    

    First page of SugarCRM

Please click download button below to download the SugarCRM install package for Lotus Foundations.

For installation guide of SugarCRM CE 6.0, please check here.

Download:

SugarCRM for Lotus Foundations

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]]> http://www.caicorp.com/archives/757/feed 0 http://www.caicorp.com/archives/539 http://www.caicorp.com/archives/539#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:57:08 +0000 rgesteland http://www.caicorp.com/?p=539

We’ve begun selling and explaining the IBM Lotus Foundations Start (LFS) server software appliance to existing and potential customers.  I show them a side-by-side comparison chart with a competing small business solution so that they can compare apples-to-apples.  After a short explanation, I’ve gotten comments such as:

- “This sounds too good to be true”

- “Why would I not choose Lotus Foundations?”

However, customers still show hesitation because the underlying operating system is Linux and there is concern regarding interoperability with Windows.  Of course, we know that we can load a virtual environment with Windows on it, but that is not the same as having the whole appliance running Windows.  This is not a show stopper by any means.  Customers are wowed (as I stated above) by all that LFS can do and they are pleased that they are now afforded a choice in the SMB market.  At the same time, LFS is a significant upfront investment for smaller businesses, so they want to vet this new opportunity before taking the leap.

I’m confident that LFS can hold its own as it really is not “too good to be true”.  It is truly a great solution that, not only offer SMBs a stable and reliable alternative,  but, also, I believe will allow SMBs to streamline their IT infrastructure while also allowing them to spend more time focusing on their core business.

]]> http://www.caicorp.com/archives/539/feed 0 http://www.caicorp.com/archives/481 http://www.caicorp.com/archives/481#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:12:27 +0000 rgesteland http://www.caicorp.com/?p=481

A potential customer for IBM Lotus Foundations Start (LFS) server recently inquired whether the server appliance is able to support a RAID configuration.   At first, I thought that a RAID configuration was not supported.  However, after some research this is what I found out.

First of all, you may already know that the LFS server appliance advertises its inclusion of Intelligent Disk Backup (IDB) for true disaster recovery by taking incremental backups, as often as every 15 minutes, of all data and operating system and software settings.  However,  if the very unlikely event that the main hard drive fails for whatever reason, the server is only available in minimal operational mode until a full restore is possible.  Of course, a full restore can occur in minutes with a push of a button, but this can still be an inconvenience for a business in the middle of a business day.

If the LFS server appliance could also support a RAID configuration, then downtime could be drastically minimized with a hard drive failure.  After looking over the LFS administration manual, I was able to verify that a RAID configuration is possible.  In fact, with only a few clicks, LFS can put a RAID configuration into place quickly and easily. RAID 1 is supported if you 2 main drives of the same type, and RAID 5 is supported if you have 3 or more.  So, from the software standpoint, RAID is obviously supported.

If you look at the server appliance hardware specifications neither the Entry Level or Advanced Level servers from IBM make any mention of RAID.  Both server types come with one 250Gb main drive and a 500Gb (Entry) or 1Tb (Advanced) hard drive for IDB backups.  This is not a supported RAID hardware configuration.  So I inquired further.  What I found out was that you can add additional 250Gb hard drives to the standard server configuration to achieve RAID through the software configuration process.  You just need to specifically request the extra hard drives be added.

So, it appears, that RAID is an “unadvertised” feature of the LFS server appliance that will make this an even more appealing all-in-one-it-solution for SMBs!