Hi,
Similar to a lot of previous threads, I too am trying to setup an internal directory lookup of staff. My initial thought was to use an LDAP server for this, whether it be openLDAP, Sun's Directory server, Microsoft ADAM, or whatever. I've ran into some issues and am now wondering if using a LDAP server was the correct road to go down. Any comments and suggestions on the following would be greatly appreciated. - One of the main driving forces is to have a web accessible client. We've found Novell's eGuide to be a pretty good tool, however, the inability to find competitive products lead me to think that the demand in this area is low, or that everyone must just write their own? - We're doing an initial load of data from a CSV file dumped from our HR system. The on-going maintenance portion is what we're having a problem with. Again, the lack of products that does LDAP management is surprising. Tech savvy people can use phpLDAPAdmin, but what of the non-tech HR people? We're not planning to allow self updates, just reads. - We're also trying to have a printable report of everyone in the directory, sort of like a hard-copy phone list. Does anyone have a suggestion on how that can be accomplished? - Lastly, there doesn't seem to be a standard as to which attribute stores which data. Should I be using portalAddress for the full address, or separate it out and list the street, city, and st separately? There is also some subtle difference between different LDAP servers, like in the Sun One Directory server; the telephoneNumber attribute is multi-valued, whereas in the Microsoft ADAM server, it only accept a single value. --- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE as the SUBJECT of the message.
