[TriLUG] Best of breed LDAP solution

[Jarod Watkins]

http://www.zivios.org/

Although it is not another LDAP server (it uses OpenLDAP), it does 
provide a very user friendly interface, and OpenLDAP does support 
multimaster replication. I have not tried this yet, however I am 
planning to in the coming weeks. Looks very promising.

Jeremy Portzer 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
>