This page last changed on Jun 03, 2010 by asridhar.

FishEye and Crucible can load an external user base stored in Active Directory, Atlassian Crowd, or any LDAP-compatible user repository.

1. Configuring your external source

You must firstly set up FishEye/Crucible to connect to your external user repository, either LDAP-based (including Active Directory) or Atlassian Crowd. Follow the steps in the documentation pages listed below and then return to Step 2 on this page.

You can only have one external user repository connected to FishEye/Crucible. If you need multiple repositories, you can use Atlassian Crowd to collate users from multiple sources and then connect FishEye/Crucible to Atlassian Crowd.

2. Loading external users

To load users from Atlassian Crowd;

  1. From the 'Admin Menu', click 'Global Settings' then 'Security'.
  2. Under Security, find the option 'Synchronise users with Crowd'. Select the 'Yes' option by clicking the radio button. Click 'Apply' to complete the process.
  3. As soon as an option has been selected and 'Apply' has been clicked, users are immediately added to the user list.

Note that users with identical names to existing users will not be imported. In the Users list, you can check whether each user is from the local database or loaded externally.

3. Setting the synchronise period

The 'synchronise period' option allows you to set the time interval when Fisheye or Crucible will synchronise with the LDAP directory. You can use intuitive settings such as '1m' for one minute, '1h' for one hour, and so on. Simply enter the time interval and click 'Apply'.

Synchronising Large User Repositories
If you have a rather large user repository, then please read this document on best practices for Synchronising With Large Repositories.
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