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has grown into an organization dispersed over three main
example.com
geographic locations: the US, Europe, and Asia.
20,000 employees, all of which live and work in the countries where the
offices are located.
example.com
LDAP directory to improve internal communication, to make it easier to develop
and deploy web applications, and to increase security and privacy.
Designing a directory tree for an international corporation involves determining
how to collect directory entries logically, how to support data management, and
how to support replication on a global scale.
In addition,
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and trading partners. An extranet is an extension of an enterprise's intranet to
external clients.
The following sections describe the steps in the process of deploying a
multinational directory service and extranet for
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Data Design
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Schema Design
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Directory Tree Design
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Topology Design
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Replication Design
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Security Design
Data Design
International creates a deployment team to perform a site survey.
example.com
The deployment team determines the following from the site survey:
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A messaging server is used to provide electronic mail routing, delivery, and
reading services for most of
to provide document publishing services. All servers run on the Solaris UNIX
operating system.
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needs to allow data to be managed locally. For example, the
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European site will be responsible for managing the Europe branch of the
directory. This also means that Europe will be responsible for the master copy
of its data.
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Because of the geographic distribution of
needs to be available to users and applications 24 hours a day.
decides to launch a company-wide
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wants to create an extranet for use by its parts suppliers
's sites. An enterprise server is used
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A Multinational Enterprise and Its Extranet
now has more than
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International:
example.com
's offices, the directory
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