LDAP user group settings
License Optimizer also supports LDAP Directories.
The LDAP directory permission settings will affect License Optimizer
LDAP permission settings
Read/Write
In that case, Confluence has permission to manipulate the LDAP groups. Both the login and the access group must be an LDAP group. With that permission settings, License Optimizer will work properly.
Creating user group in Jira with Read/Write permission: If you are creating a new group, with Read/Write permission, Please note that LDAP users create LDAP groups and local users create local groups so always make sure to log in with the correct user before creating new user groups.
Read Only with local groups
In this case LDAP users, groups and memberships are retrieved from your directory server and can only be modified via your directory server. You cannot modify LDAP users, groups or memberships via the application administration screens. However, you can add groups to the internal directory and add LDAP users to those groups.
If the access group is a local group then the License Optimizer will work. The login group can be either local or LDAP group, it won’t affect the application.
Read Only
In case the LDAP permission is set to read-only, License Optimizer will not have permission to manipulate the user groups. That means the application won’t be able to work!
Jira delegated user management
Jira User Directory with only License Optimizer for Jira
If you manage your users in Jira and you use Jira User Directory to provide access for users for Confluence then it is possible to create floating licensing for Confluence without License Optimizer for Confluence.
In this case, users will be able to access both Jira and Confluence as well, if you have users who should access only one of the product you have to use License Optimizer for Confluence as well.
Crowd permission must be set to read/write.
Confluence license tier must be the same as your Jira in order to work with this solution.
If you are providing access to users from Jira with only License Optimizer for Jira, when users log in they will get access to Jira and Confluence at the same time.
As you can set login and access groups only in Jira, all of the users that are added in login group will be able to access both Jira and Confluence as well.
Jira User Directory with License Optimizer for Jira and Confluence
If you have users who should only be able to access either Jira or Confluence, then you need to install License Optimizer for Jira and Confluence as well.
You have to create and use separate login and access group for License Optimizer Jira and License Optimizer Confluence.
In this case, the license tier of Confluence and Jira can be different.