- Navigate to Configuration > System > Name Services.
- In the Name Services pane, select Global Configuration or an indvidual EVS from the EVS security contexts list.
If an EVS inherits the global configuration, the option to modify the NIS configuration settings is not available. In this situation, you can modify the settings for only the global configuration.
- Click the NIS / LDAP tab and confirm that NIS Mode is shown, and then click the edit icon.
- Complete the following information:
- In the Domain box, enter the name of the NIS domain for which the system is a client. The maximum number of characters is 64.
- In the Rebind box, the frequency of attempts to connect to configured NIS servers. Enter a value from 1 to 15 minutes.
- In the Timeout box, enter a time from 100 to 10,000 milliseconds to wait for a response from an NIS server when verifying the domain for servers. The default value is 300 milliseconds.
- Set the Broadcast for Servers switch to Disabled or to Enabled to discover the available NIS servers on the network. The servers must be in the same NIS domain and present on the server's network.
- Click Save.