You can authenticate ovirt-provider-ovn against Active Directory.
To authenticate via user/password set
ovirt-admin-user-name=<admin_username> in /etc/ovirt-provider-ovn/conf.d and use <admin_username>@<ad_domain>@<auth_profile> when defining the external provider in the Manager.
To authenticate with an active directory group, set the following in /etc/ovirt-provider-ovn/conf.d:
[AUTH]
auth-plugin=auth.plugins.ovirt:AuthorizationByGroup
[OVIRT]
ovirt-admin-role-id=def00005-0000-0000-0000-def000000005
ovirt-admin-group-attribute-name=AAA_AUTHZ_GROUP_NAME;java.lang.String;0eebe54f-b429-44f3-aa80-4704cbb16835
and use <admin_username>@<ad_domain>@<auth_profile> when defining the external provider in the Manager.
I found authentication via group to be working correctly.
The username format was wrong. For Active Directory we need to use the following username format: <admin_username>@<ad_domain>@<auth_profile> when saving the settings in the provider window.
I used the following ovirt-provider-ovn.conf settings:
[AUTH]
auth-plugin=auth.plugins.ovirt:AuthorizationByGroup
[OVIRT]
ovirt-admin-role-id=def00005-0000-0000-0000-def000000005
ovirt-admin-group-attribute-name=AAA_AUTHZ_GROUP_NAME;java.lang.String;0eebe54f-b429-44f3-aa80-4704cbb16835
ovirt-admin-group-attribute-value=ovn_admins
This scenario needs to be documented. I think that it is better to add additional setting for authentication profile in the conf file, so username <user>@<domain> will be accepted.
This bugzilla is included in oVirt 4.2.0 release, published on Dec 20th 2017.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in oVirt 4.2.0 release, published on Dec 20th 2017, it has been closed with a resolution of CURRENT RELEASE.
If the solution does not work for you, please open a new bug report.