Hi,
I have an LDAP directory with a very large number of records (some possibly
duplicated in their entirety or partially as superset/subset) which I would
like to
condense and repair and correct insofar as the individual subrecords/fields
within each record are concerned.
The format of this LDAP directory, when dumped, is a set of millions of rows
of data which when sorted and uniqued on the cname results in a small fraction
of
the original total (.00746% to be exact), though whether the duplicates
themselves
have same fields is another matter entirely.
The records are in XML format and consist of key/value pairs.
My suspicion is that this directory has never been properly maintained so I
have some questions:
+ what are the accepted ways via automation to maintain this directory
+ what methods or code exist to condense and verify a hitherto-unmaintained
LDAP directory
+ simplifying the data to the bare bones number of records, discarding the
others after
making a general full backup
So what I am asking for is a general set of already written Perl tools using
Net::LDAP which deal
with LDAP directories intelligently.
--Stuart
