This plugin provides a new River type that can be used to retrieve data from LDAP servers for indexing into Elasticsearch.

Type the command in your favorite shell :

$ bin\plugin -install tlrx/elasticsearch-river-ldap/0.0.2

Elasticsearch automatically install the plugin:

-> Installing tlrx/elasticsearch-river-ldap/0.0.2...
Trying https://github.com/downloads/tlrxelasticsearch-river-ldap/elasticsearch-river-ldap-0.0.2.zip...
Downloading ..........DONE
Installed elasticsearch-river-ldap

To create a new LDAP river:

curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/_river/my_ldap_river/_meta' -d '{
	    "type" : "ldap",
	    "ldap" : {
	        "host" : "ldap.example.com",
	        "port" : "389",
	        "ssl"  : false,
	        "userDn" : "tanguy",
	        "credentials" : "secret",
	        "baseDn" : "ou=users,ou=system",
	        "filter" : "(objectClass=person)",
	        "scope" : "subtree",
	        "attributes" : [
			"sn", 
			"cn", 
			"memberOf"
		],
	        "fields" : [
			"_id", 
			"name", 
			"groups"
		],
	        "poll" : 60000,
	    },
	    "index" : {
		"index" : "server0",
		"type"	: "person"
	    }
	}'

attributes and fields options are both array of strings. While the first is used to retrieve object attributes from the LDAP, the second will be used to rename the attributes and index them under a given field name.

In this example, the documents will be indexed as “person” document in the index “server0”:

• the value of the LDAP attribute “sn” will be indexed as the document’s id
• the value of the LDAP attribute “cn” will be indexed in a field called “name”
• the values of the LDAP attribute “memberOf” will be indexed in a field called “groups”

The following options can be configured:

Thanks to Jörg Prante for the boilerplate code that comes from the nice JDBC River Plugin :o)