On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Arun Khan <knu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would suggest you familiarize yourself with LDAP concepts (O'Reilly > title on openLDAP covers the basics) before jumping into > implementation. This is critical to help you plan your Directory Tree > structure. > > openLDAP, Apache DS, 389 DS (Fedora) are some of the implementation. > > > one company. Should we use an existing server to host it from or acquire > a > > new VPS for it? Alternatively if we are going to be paying for many > > commercial VPS's we might want to consider colocating one of my servers. > > (a) How many user entries in your Directory Server? > Well I don't have a directory server outside of Crowd which is only currently used for JIRA. I have about 5 or so users for the email systems and most other systems have 2 users - root/admin and 'zico' as a non-priviledged account. I may have contractors coming and going for certain jobs and I would like to be able to add and remove permissions as needed from one place. (b) How many systems (*nix/Mac OS X) will bind with your LDAP server? > In terms of physical machines 2 or 3, in terms of services the ones I listed > (c) How many MS systems (MS Domain) will bind with your LDAP server? > None > > These are some of the questions you need to answer to engineer your > LDAP server(s). > > To distribute the connections, I would suggest configure multiple LDAP > servers (running on guest OS in Virtual Machines) with > replication/sync between them. > I appreciate the need for redundancy but I'm a bit short of RAM on the office machine at the moment, Okay, if I set up a clean new VM inside the office network and access to it is that the best way to proceed? -- Best, Zico _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
