Understanding LDAP - Design and Implementation

Planning your directory

The first sections in this chapter describe some guidelines on how the design and implementation of the data and directory tree structure should be done. Then security planning is described, followed by implementing such a directory in a physical infrastructure having scalability, availability, manageability, and maintenance aspects of an LDAP directory deployment in mind.

Discussing low-level details of designing a directory implementation, such as detailed performance tuning aspects or product selection criteria, is beyond ...