You can import users to your VMware Cloud Director Provider organization from a previously configured LDAP or SAML identity provider.

Prerequisites

Configure a System LDAP Connection in Your VMware Cloud Director or Configure Your VMware Cloud Director System to Use a SAML Identity Provider.

Procedure

  1. From the primary left navigation panel, select Administration.
  2. From the secondary left panel, under Provider Access Control, select Users.
  3. Click Import Users.
  4. From the Source drop-down menu, select your identity provider type.
    Can be LDAP or SAML.

    If you configured only one identity provider, this option is hard-coded.


  5. Specify the users.
    Option Description
    LDAP
    1. Enter a full or partial name of a user and click Search.
    2. From the search results, select the users that you want to import.
    3. From the Assign Role drop-down menu, select a role for the imported users.
    SAML
    1. Enter the user names of the users that you want to import in the name identifier format supported by the SAML identity provider.

      Use a new line for each user name.

    2. From the Assign Role drop-down menu, select a role for the imported users.
  6. Click Save.

Results

You can see the imported users in the list of users.