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Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services

Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services

About the Authors

About the Technical Reviewers

Acknowledgments

Preface
     The Book's Organization
     The Book's Audience
     Contacting Us

I: An Introduction to Directory Services and LDAP

1. Directory Services Overview
     What Is a Directory?
     What Can a Directory Do for You?
     What a Directory Is Not
     Directory Services Overview Checklist
     Further Reading
     Looking Ahead

2. A Brief History of Directories
     Prehistory and Early Electronic Directories
     Application-Specific and Special-Purpose Directories
     Network Operating System Directories
     General-Purpose, Standards-Based Directories
     Directory Services Future
     Conclusion
     Directory Services Time Line
     Further Reading
     Looking Ahead

3. An Introduction to LDAP
     What Is LDAP?
     The LDAP Models
     LDAP APIs
     LDIF
     LDAP and Internationalization
     LDAP Overview Checklist
     Further Reading
     Looking Ahead

II: Designing Your Directory Service

4. Directory Road Map
     The Directory Life Cycle
     Directory Design Checklist
     Further Reading
     Looking Ahead

5. Defining Your Directory Needs
     An Overview of the Directory Needs Definition Process
     Analyzing Your Environment
     Determining and Prioritizing Application Needs
     Determining and Prioritizing Users' Needs and Expectations
     Determining and Prioritizing Deployment Constraints
     Determining and Prioritizing Other Environmental Constraints
     Choosing an Overall Directory Design and Deployment Approach
     Setting Goals and Milestones
     Defining Your Directory Needs Checklist
     Further Reading
     Looking Ahead

6. Data Design
     Data Design Overview
     Common Data-Related Problems
     Creating a Data Policy Statement
     Identifying Which Data Elements You Need
     General Characteristics of Data Elements
     Sources for Data
     Maintaining Good Relationships with Other Data Sources
     Data Design Checklist
     Further Reading
     Looking Ahead

7. Schema Design
     The Purpose of a Schema
     Elements of LDAP Schemas
     Directory Schema Formats
     The Schema Checking Process
     Schema Design Overview
     Sources for Predefined Schemas
     Defining New Schema Elements
     Documenting and Publishing Your Schemas
     Schema Maintenance and Evolution
     Schema Design Checklist
     Further Reading
     Looking Ahead

8. Namespace Design
     The Structure of a Namespace
     The Purposes of a Namespace
     Analyzing Your Namespace Needs
     Examples of Namespaces
     Namespace Design Checklist
     Further Reading
     Looking Ahead

9. Topology Design
     Directory Topology Overview
     Gluing the Directory Together: Knowledge References
     Authentication in a Distributed Directory
     Designing Your Directory Server Topology
     Topology Design Checklist
     Further Reading
     Looking Ahead

10. Replication Design
     Why Replicate?
     Replication Concepts
     Advanced Features
     Designing Your Directory Replication System
     Replication Checklist
     Further Reading
     Looking Ahead

11. Privacy and Security Design
     Security Guidelines
     The Purpose of Security
     Security Threats
     Security Tools
     Analyzing Your Security and Privacy Needs
     Designing for Security
     Further Reading
     Looking Ahead

III: Deploying Your Directory Service

12. Choosing Directory Products
     Making the Right Product Choice
     Categories of Directory Software
     Evaluation Criteria for Directory Software
     Reaching a Decision
     Directory Software Options
     Choosing Directory Products Checklist
     Further Reading
     Looking Ahead

13. Piloting Your Directory Service
     Pre-pilot Testing
     A Piloting Road Map
     Piloting Checklist
     Looking Ahead

14. Analyzing and Reducing Costs
     The Politics of Costs
     Reducing Costs
     Design, Piloting, and Deployment Costs
     Ongoing Costs of Providing Your Directory Service
     Analyzing and Reducing Costs Checklist
     Further Reading
     Looking Ahead

15. Going Production
     Creating a Plan for Going Production
     Advice for Going Production
     Executing Your Plan
     Going Production Checklist
     Looking Ahead

IV: Maintaining Your Directory Service

16. Backups and Disaster Recovery
     Backup and Restore Procedures
     Disaster Planning and Recovery
     Directory-Specific Issues in Disaster Recovery
     Summary
     Backups and Disaster Recovery Checklist
     Further Reading
     Looking Ahead

17. Maintaining Data
     The Importance of Data Maintenance
     The Data Maintenance Policy
     Handling New Data Sources
     Handling Exceptions
     Checking Data Quality
     Data Maintenance Checklist
     Further Reading
     Looking Ahead

18. Monitoring
     An Introduction to Monitoring
     Selecting and Developing Monitoring Tools
     Proactive Monitoring
     Notification Techniques
     Taking Action
     A Sample Directory Monitoring Utility
     Monitoring Checklist
     Further Reading
     Looking Ahead

19. Troubleshooting
     Discovering Problems
     Types of Problems
     Troubleshooting and Resolving Problems
     Troubleshooting Checklist
     Looking Ahead

V: Leveraging Your Directory Service

20. Developing New Applications
     Reasons to Develop Directory-Enabled Applications
     Common Ways Applications Use Directories
     Tools for Developing LDAP Applications
     Advice for LDAP Application Developers
     Example 1: A Password-Resetting Utility
     Example 2: An Employee Time-Off Request Web Application
     Developing New Applications Checklist
     Further Reading
     Looking Ahead

21. Directory-Enabling ExistingApplications
     Reasons to Directory-Enable Existing Applications
     Advice for Directory-Enabling Existing Applications
     Example 1: A Directory-Enabled finger Service
     Example 2: Adding LDAP Lookup to an Email Client
     Directory-Enabling Existing Applications Checklist
     Further Reading
     Looking Ahead

22. Directory Coexistence
     Why Is Coexistence Important?
     Determining Your Requirements
     Coexistence Techniques
     Privacy and Security Considerations
     Example 1: One-Way Synchronization with Join
     Example 2: A Virtual Directory
     Directory Coexistence Checklist
     Further Reading
     Looking Ahead

VI: Case Studies

23. Case Study: Netscape Communications Corporation
     An Overview of the Organization
     Directory Drivers
     Directory Service Design
     Directory Service Deployment
     Directory Service Maintenance
     Leveraging the Directory Service
     Summary and Lessons Learned
     Further Reading
     Looking Ahead

24. Case Study: A Large University
     An Overview of the Organization
     Directory Drivers
     Directory Service Design
     Deployment
     Maintenance
     Leveraging the Directory Service
     Applications
     Directory Deployment Impact
     Summary and Lessons Learned
     Looking Ahead

25. Case Study: A Large Multinational Enterprise
     An Overview of the Organization
     Directory Drivers
     Directory Service Design
     Deployment
     Maintenance
     Leveraging the Directory Service
     Summary and Lessons Learned
     Further Reading
     Looking Ahead

26. Case Study: An Enterprise with an Extranet
     An Overview of the Organization
     Directory Drivers
     Directory Service Design
     Deployment
     Maintenance
     Leveraging the Directory Service
     Summary and Lessons Learned
     Further Reading



Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services,  2002 New Riders Publishing

?2002, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.



Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services
Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 0672323168
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 1997
Pages: 245

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