[TriLUG] Best of breed LDAP solution

[Justin]

Likewise software has got a really good thing going.  They've got a free
version and a payed version.  Excellent tech support.

Justin


On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 21:11 -0500, David McDowell wrote:
> Is Novell still doing it's eDir?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Robert Dale <robdale at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I like Sun's OpenDS[1].  The open source version has only cli admin tools, IIRC.
> > I'm sure the commercial[2] variant has fancy tools.  Otherwise, it
> > fulfils your requirements.
> > I use it at $WORK on a relatively small user base.
> >
> > 1. https://www.opends.org/
> > 2. http://www.sun.com/software/products/directory_srvr_ee/index.jsp
> >
> > --
> > Robert Dale
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp at pobox.com> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any recent experience with LDAP deployments across
> >> reasonably large environments (we have 1000+ hosts)?    We use LDAP for
> >> traditional Unix host authentication/authorization, as well as various
> >> other web apps.  We currently use Fedora Directory Server but are having
> >> many problems with its multimaster replication, and have hit some walls
> >> in troubleshooting it.  While I believe we probably can fix it,
> >> management has asked for us to consider other directory server products
> >> (including commercial ones), if they would offer better features and
> >> long-term support.  I'm wondering if anyone can offer their recent LDAP
> >> deployment experiences?
> >>
> >> Our requirements:
> >>        * Multimaster replication (or similar) for cluster deployment across
> >> diverse geographical sites
> >>        * Scalability to 1000's of hosts
> >>        * Some sort of GUI administration (I guess web-based would be
> >> preferred; Fedora DS's Java-based admin tool is acceptable but painful
> >> to set up, and very slow over LANs)
> >>        * Runs on RHEL, preferably playing nice with other apps on the same host(s)
> >>        * Sane backup, disaster recovery, and upgrade procedures
> >>
> >> Commercial support availability is not a specific requirement, but is
> >> something we'd consider if it has good cost/benefit so I'd be interested
> >> in any thoughts on that also.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Jeremy Portzer
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