The Suretec Blog

New versions (3.1.5) at:

asterisk.ldif
asterisk.schema

In case anyone else got stuck. To get iwl3945 on a Dell Inspiron 640m to work:

Two very good Symas TechTips:


- Managing Password Policies in the Directory
- Delta SyncRepl Replication Configuration


Enjoy!

Flagship contract failed to deliver, Vista partly to blame

Mr. LDAP^[?] at Microsoft now

Barbie has posted the conference photos:

- UKUUG 2008 Spring Conference - Day One
- UKUUG 2008 Spring Conference - Day Two
- UKUUG 2008 Spring Conference - Day Three

I spoke on Day 2. Me in action

Our dinner table, which made for a very entertaining night.

Gavin.

I got back last night, after a somewhat hectic Flybe.com flight (long story).

I really enjoyed the conference, my first time speaking at one, bit nervous, but it can only get better

Tuesday:

I've just finished reading The 2 billion entry directory tree - The scalability of Oracle Internet Directory at very large Directory Information Tree sizes, and thought I'd blog some initial thoughts (I'm sure our partners Symas will have something to say later).

The following is from the 2 Billion User Benchmark (Oracle Internet Directory 10.1.4.0.1) - Technical Whitepaper (PDF) on the Oracle Internet Directory homepage.

So here's the Network kit they used:



Some pretty accessible kit there!

There's now a new section at Asterisk LDAP^[?] Realtime on voip-info

It's prompted me to do an Asterisk LDAP Schema update for asterisk.schema and asterisk.ldif

I was intrigued searching the other day to see if there was an "LDAP^[?] Appliance". The only result worth noting was a product that has been stopped:

LDAP One Network Identity Appliance

Was the wrong Directory server technology used or was it packaged wrongly etc.? Either way it obviously didn't sell.

I'm interested to learn if there is a demand for something like this using OpenLDAP which bundled tools and capabilities like:

- Web GUI for monitoring, configuration etc.
- Desktop Client for the same as above
- Easy recovery and clustering
- Various appliances with certified directory sizes and performance
- Support plans etc.
- Specific usage targets, i.e. Identity, Samba or generic enough to do all

Generally taking the pain out of OpenLDAP management and sysadmin tasks for unexperienced users.

Suretec and Symas always get asked the same questions about how to monitor OpenLDAP and what configuration tools to use.

Of course there are various answers to these (command line tools come with OpenLDAP anyway) and 9 times out of 10 the customer whats to integrate it with their own systems and use or write custom tools anyway.

Would it be good to have recommended tools and an appliance or is it better to let the customer do it themselves on their own hardware?

Gavin.