LDAP (12)
Replication (for fault tolerance, load balancing)
- supplier and consumer servers
- cascading is possible; referrals are also possible
- replication can be complete or partial (sub-tree)
- synchronization of the directory database
How to create contents:
- create flat, ascii LDIF file and import it, or
- use directory gateway
LDAP client
- directory server gateway (apache + cgi scripts, etc)
- command line utilities: ldapsearch, ldapmodify, ldapdelete