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This section explains how to configure your platform so that flexVDI clients are able to connect and present a virtual desktop. Several configurations are possible, from simple ones where clients are able to reach any host of the platform, to more complex ones where hosts are not directly accessible (e.g. they are behind a firewall or NAT router). Here, you will understand these possibilities and their implications, and how to select the configuration that best fits your corporate network.

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For Apache, you need at least Apache 2.4 and the mod_proxy_wstunnel module.

Giving a single entry point to several flexVDI platforms

Some large sites have several flexVDI managers orchestrating several flexVDI installations.

A flexvdi-gateway can act as a single entrypoint for several flexVDI managers, provisioning the flexVDI manager IP for each end user in his ldap entry.

To achieve this, also populate the following entries in  etc/flexvdi/flexvdi-gateway.conf

{
   ...
  "LDAPServer": "",
  "LDAPPort": 389,
  "LDAPUsername": "",
  "LDAPPassword": "",
  "LDAPBaseDN": "",
  "LDAPSearchRDN": "",
  "LDAPAttribute": "",
  "LDAPOneShot": true,
  "LDAPFallback": true,
  "LDAPCacheSecs": 3600
}

• LdapServer: It must contain the IP address or name of the ldap server.
• LDAPPort: Port lisening to ldap requests.
• LDAPUsername: Bind user to request to the ldap. It must have read access to the pertinent branch of the ldap server
• LDAPPassword: Passowrd used to athenticate to LDAPUsername.
• LDAPBaseDN: Branch of ldap to search for the user.
• LDAPSearchRDN: ldap attribute used as username for searching the end user
• LDAPAttribute: The attribute in the ldap user entry that stores the flexVDI manager IP or host name assigned to this user.
• LDAPOneShot: Search for the user only immediately under LDAPBaseDN
• LDAPFallback: If ldap search for theLDAPAttribute gives no result, for instance because it is empty, or deos not exist for the user, fallback to the "ManagerIP" value in the flexvdi-gateway.conf as default
• LDAPCacheSecs: Number of seconds to cache the ldap data in the flexvdi-gateway, to reduce ldap server load.