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Synchronize Active Directory to Qlik NPrinting

Giuseppe_Panella — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:50:40 GMT

This video shows you how to import users and groups from an active directory controller into Qlik NPrinting through the REST API. This will help you to keep your group and users in Active Directory and NPrinting in sync.

The AdSync to NPrinting tool is a C# library that is available in GitHub. https://github.com/qlik-oss/nprinting-adsync

Take a look at this video to start working with this tool

Re: Synchronize Active Directory to Qlik NPrinting

djbloiss — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 20:13:05 GMT

does the toll presented in the video work with Version 16, as my company has not upgraded yet.

Re: Synchronize Active Directory to Qlik NPrinting

Giuseppe_Panella — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 08:34:56 GMT

Hi Daniel,

the tool doesn't work in NPrinting 16 because it use the User/Groups API that has been introduced starting from the version 17.3.

Re: Synchronize Active Directory to Qlik NPrinting

Ruggero_Piccoli — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 08:45:12 GMT

Hi,

Qlik NPrinting 16 can import users from LDAP services natively. It doesn't need an external tool.

Refer to Import Users from LDAP Directory Subfolders

Best Regards,

Ruggero

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Re: Synchronize Active Directory to Qlik NPrinting

felipestall — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 16:32:21 GMT

Hi guys, can anybody help me with this:

Thanks a lot!

Re: Synchronize Active Directory to Qlik NPrinting

Ruggero_Piccoli — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:32:35 GMT

Suggestion from a developer.

It seems an error related with an Active Directory connection. Try to set your IP address

in the configuration file

Best Regards,

Ruggero

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Re: Synchronize Active Directory to Qlik NPrinting

lee_connor — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 20:12:56 GMT

Hi I have been trying today to get this working keep getting the same issue when the exe...

I built the app OK and think I have setup the config file also OK.

Just don't know what is going wrong, any help would be great

Lee

Re: Synchronize Active Directory to Qlik NPrinting

Ruggero_Piccoli — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:42:10 GMT

Hi,

It is an authentication issue.

The user used to login into Qlik NPrinting is the same user that is running the script in the command line window. So be sure that the user that is opening the command line is available in Qlik NPrinting with an admin role.

Best Regards,

Ruggero

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Re: Synchronize Active Directory to Qlik NPrinting

lee_connor — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:07:51 GMT

Many thanks Ruggero, thats now working perfect !

Thanks

Lee

Re: Synchronize Active Directory to Qlik NPrinting

romain__avizzeo — Wed, 09 May 2018 13:41:39 GMT

Hi,

I have the same issue :

No issue during the build, and I also checked in the nPrinting Server that the user exists :

and has the admin role :

Any other idea where the error can come from please ?

Thanks

Romain

Re: Synchronize Active Directory to Qlik NPrinting

Ruggero_Piccoli — Thu, 10 May 2018 07:52:43 GMT

Hi,

The user that you insert in the command line with the -u -p options is the user that connects to the Active Directory. In Qlik NPrinting you must create the Windows user that runs the ADSynchDemoApp.exe process, the same user that you used to login in the Windows computer where you run the tool.

Best,

Ruggero

Re: Synchronize Active Directory to Qlik NPrinting

romain__avizzeo — Mon, 14 May 2018 12:42:18 GMT

Hi Ruggero,

Thanks for your answer, but the AD user used to connect to the Active Directory was also the user who ran the exe process (I was logged on the Nprinting server with this user).

I tried to create a local admin user different from the AD user to run the exe process and add him in the users of the Nprinting console, but same error message ...

Re: Synchronize Active Directory to Qlik NPrinting

Ruggero_Piccoli — Tue, 15 May 2018 08:28:35 GMT

Hi,

I have not asked before, I suppose the two users are in the same AD domain. Correct?

Re: Synchronize Active Directory to Qlik NPrinting

romain__avizzeo — Tue, 15 May 2018 08:32:15 GMT

Hi Ruggero,

As in my first trial I used the same AD user, yes it was on the same domain.

Re: Synchronize Active Directory to Qlik NPrinting

romain__avizzeo — Wed, 23 May 2018 08:14:41 GMT

Hi again,

I solved this issue by :

- using "localhost" instead of the URL of the nprinting server

- using the ip adresse instead the alias in the AD server parameter

The sync worked perfectly first time, but now I don't understand why it doesn't detect discrepencies between the AD groups and the nprinting users list...

Indeed, some users have been deleted from the nprinting server (so they are in the AD group but not in the nprinting users list) but it doesn't detect them (it doesn't read the AD groups again)

Do you have any idea ?

Thanks

Romain

Re: Synchronize Active Directory to Qlik NPrinting

Ruggero_Piccoli — Thu, 31 May 2018 09:33:47 GMT

Hi,

I investigated with the help of a C# developer.

The synchronization is mono-directional; from the AD to Qlik NPrinting
To read the AD deleted objects, the users that you specify in the command row need specific rights. Maybe it must be an admin

We would to suggest you to check these two things.

Best Regards,

Ruggero

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Re: Synchronize Active Directory to Qlik NPrinting

marcohadiyanto — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 10:53:12 GMT

Hi All,

at this stage ==> ADSyncDemoApp.exe -u domain\username -p password

I had error, Any idea of below error?

API Error: Qlik.NPrinting.Rest.Client.Client.ApiException: Error calling LoginNtlmGet: {"result":null,"code":1,"message":null}

at Qlik.NPrinting.Rest.Client.Api.AuthenticationApi.NtlmAuthentication()

at Qlik.NPrinting.Rest.Client.Client.NPrintingApiFactory.GetNPrintingApiClient(String npUrl)

at ADSyncDemoApp.Program.Main(String[] args)

Thanks

Marco

Re: Synchronize Active Directory to Qlik NPrinting

Ruggero_Piccoli — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 10:55:50 GMT

Hi,

Starting from September 2018 you can:

Import users and roles from LDAP

You can import users, with attributes and roles, from a generic LDAP source by configuring import tasks in the Qlik NPrinting Web Console.

Details: https://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/September2018/Content/NPrinting/DeployingQVNprinting/Import-Users-Filters.htm

So I suggest you to update to September 2018 and use the native LDAP importing feature.

Best Regards,

Ruggero

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Re: Synchronize Active Directory to Qlik NPrinting

lee_connor — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 10:58:56 GMT

I would check that all your users in AD have:

An email address
They are not duplicated email addresses
All have first / last name and full name
They are not duplicated names

Also if you can this is now in the September NP release so I would recommend upgrading but test first as the AD mappings need changing to when syncing the AD.

Lee