http://blog.suretecsystems.com/ Open Source. Open Solutions. en Serendipity 1.3 - http://www.s9y.org/ Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:51:53 GMT http://blog.suretecsystems.com/templates/competition/img/s9y_banner_small.png http://blog.suretecsystems.com/ 100 21 http://blog.suretecsystems.com/archives/25-Dedicated-OpenLDAP-GUI.html Catalyst Dojo Gnome OpenLDAP PostgreSQL Suretec http://blog.suretecsystems.com/archives/25-Dedicated-OpenLDAP-GUI.html#comments http://blog.suretecsystems.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=25 16 http://blog.suretecsystems.com/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=25 nospam@example.com (Gavin Henry) We know there are various desktop apps like <a onclick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/extlink/gq-project.org/');" href="http://gq-project.org/">gq</a>, <a onclick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/extlink/www.jxplorer.org');" href="http://www.jxplorer.org">Jxplorer</a> etc. and web based like <a onclick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/extlink/www.gosa-project.org/');" href="http://www.gosa-project.org/">gosa</a> and <a onclick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/extlink/phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net/');" href="http://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net/">phpldapadmin</a>, but do we want a GUI specfically tailored for <a onclick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/extlink/www.openldap.org');" href="http://www.openldap.org">OpenLDAP</a>?<br /> <br /> <a onclick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/extlink/www.suretecsystems.com');" href="http://www.suretecsystems.com">Suretec</a> do. <br /> <br /> So, what style?<br /> We've already done a nice <a onclick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/extlink/www.flexitimemanager.co.uk');" href="http://www.flexitimemanager.co.uk">Web 2.0 style app</a> using Catalyst, Dojo and PostgreSQL. Why not one like that or <a onclick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/extlink/desktop.google.com/');" href="http://desktop.google.com/">Google Desktop</a>?<br /> <br /> Probably speed. Loading up <a onclick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/extlink/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDAP_Data_Interchange_Format');" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDAP_Data_Interchange_Format">LDIF</a> data etc may be too slow.<br /> <br /> It would probably have to be something OS independent and written in C or C++<br /> <br /> I would prefer using C for making use of libldap for possibly a benchmark suite to include in the app with a plugin API for others to contribute. Then you could use <a onclick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/extlink/www.gtk.org/');" href="http://www.gtk.org/">GTK+</a>. I don't know, these are just minor details really, feature set is the key here.<br /> <br /> So I'm thinking of features like:<br /> <br /> - Standard LDAP^{<span title="Lightweight Directory Access Protocol" class="serendipity_glossaryMarkup">[?]</span>} stuff<br /> - OpenLDAP Configuration Wizard<br /> - Monitoring stats and graphs<br /> - Tuning wizard<br /> - Benchmark wizard<br /> - Importing from various sources<br /> - many more etc..<br /> <br /> The interesting thing about the import part is you could then hook up to various Social Web Apps to get address book info and then import that to your directory. Just a thought.<br /> <br /> The main thing I want is configuration tools for <strong>cn=config</strong> made easy and monitoring with stats etc.<br /> <br /> I know it's all just LDIF and LDAP and that you can use any existing GUI, but it would be nice to dumb this down a bit for clients and not find different solutions all over the place for handling the same old task.<br /> <br /> But should this be a fresh new app, or could we add to say <a onclick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/extlink/gq-project.org/');" href="http://gq-project.org/">gq</a>. It might be worth looking into to speed things up.<br /> <br /> Feel free to add your comments.<br /> <br /> Gavin.<br /> Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:42:00 +0000 http://blog.suretecsystems.com/archives/25-guid.html Catalyst Dojo Gnome OpenLDAP PostgreSQL