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During this stage I did a lot of research. I setup my cloudstack development environment and investigated the current LDAP implementation within Cloudstack.

Along with this I exploded the testing framework developed for Cloudstack.

Midterm review

During the code stage I began to investigate the current LDAP implementation. This includes:

• The user authenticator (plugins/user-authentication/LDAPldap) This allowed the cloudstack login to allow LDAP based users to login once they exist within the cloudstack database.
• LDAPConfig (api/src/org/apache/cloudstack/api/command/admin/LDAPldap/LDAPConfigCmd.java) This exposed a functionality for adding an LDAP configuration. This is detailed over here: https://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/api/apidocs-4.1/root_admin/LDAPConfig.html This did not allow multiple configurations.
• LDAPRemove (api/src/org/apache/cloudstack/api/command/admin/LDAP/LDAPRemoveCmd.java) this allowed for removing the LDAP configuration
• UI features. Global settings -> LDAP configuration allowed for the addition of a single LDAP server using the LDAPConfig command and the removal of an LDAP server using the LDAPRemove command.

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