Re: LDAP/OID

Four years ago, I worked on a project to publish employee/people data sourced in Oracle to Netscape LDAP. We first mapped our relational data to V3 objectclasses & attributes, and defined our own objectclasses & attributes as needed. Then we created a table that held: primary_key table_name transaction_type transaction_date ldap_update_status. Change events were logged to this table using triggers, and a PERL script generated LDIF changes based on events in this table. PERL used DBD/DBI to Oracle, and CL utilities ldapsearch/ldapmodify to LDAP. Not exactly elegant, but for a low-volume transaction database (approx 6000 changes per day) it worked well. We did this back when LDAP was relatively new, and we had experience with X500 so it was considered a huge improvement.

Oracle remained the data source for employee/people published to LDAP, and LDAP was the data source for other data like passwords, certificates and preferences. LDAP served the needs of 70,000+ employees who used it for directory lookups, password & certificate authentication, e-mail and calendar prefs, group lists, etc. We also integrated LDAP authentication and access control for hundreds of web-based applications.

LDAP is definately worthwhile, good planning on schema design is must. Haven't done anything yet with OID except install and look at it.

Suzy

Dave Morgan wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> OID is not worth the hassle of installing, but, has
> anyone used a regular LDAP server to hold Oracle
> database information? Details would be appreciatted.
>
> TIA
> Dave
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