eTrust Directory Administrator Guide - CA Technologies

Chapter
1 Introduction
The eTrust Directory consists of a suite of products that lets you build an
industrial-strength directory service for directory-enabled applications. The
product suite includes a high performance, state-of-the-art Directory server,
graphical Directory browsers, and a set of tools for importing, exporting, and
synchronizing data with other information systems.
eTrust Directory advanced features are:
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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) support for access and the
X.500 distributed directory model for distribution, which lets you build highcapacity
global directory systems
Its underlying information repository (on each server) that uses a relational
database to apply a patented meta-data design, thus ensuring reliability and
data integrity
Its unique ability to connect and integrate smaller scale LDAP Servers to
create a unified directory backbone service with legacy directory servers
The system is highly scalable and robust, and meets the needs of large corporate
organizations, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), carriers, the military, and the
smaller office automation directory applications.
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