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The Book's Organization

This book includes 26 chapters in 6 parts. Part I introduces directories and LDAP. Parts II through IV each address a different part of the directory life cycle. Part Vdiscusses how to leverage your directory service once it's up and running. Finally, Part VIpresents four directory services deployment case studies.

Part I provides a fairly comprehensive introduction to directories and LDAP. For readers unfamiliar with the topic, this section should bring them up to speed and provide the background necessary to understand the rest of the book. It also includes a section on the history of directories for readers interested in how all this technology came about.

Part II begins to delve into the directory life cycle by covering the first and in many ways most important phase: design. We cover all aspects of directory design, from determining your needs, to designing your data sources, schema, namespace, topology, replication, and finally privacy and security.

Part III covers the next phase in the directory life cycle: deployment. We cover everything from choosing the right directory products to piloting your service to going production. We've also included a section about analyzing the cost of your service and how to help reduce those costs.

Part IV concludes our coverage of the directory life cycle with a look at the maintenance phase. We cover such topics as backup and disaster recovery, maintaining data, monitoring your directory system, and troubleshooting problems when they occur.

Part V talks about how to take advantage of the service you have designed and deployed. We discuss the benefits and pitfalls of directory-enabling existing applications, creating new applications that use the directory, and how your directory can coexist with other data sources.

Part VI closes the book by presenting a number of directory case studies. Some of the case studies presented are real and some are fictitious, but all are designed to illustrate the concepts of directory design, deployment, and maintenance in action.



Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services,  2002 New Riders Publishing
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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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