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Performing a Site Survey
Performing a Site Survey
A site survey is a formal method for discovering and characterizing the contents of
your directory. Budget plenty of time for performing a site survey, as data is the
key to your directory architecture.The site survey consists of the following tasks,
which are described briefly here and in more detail next:
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Identify the applications that use your directory.
Determine the directory-enabled applications you deploy and their data needs.
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Identify data sources.
Survey your enterprise and identify sources of data (such as NT or Netware
directories, PBX systems, Human Resources databases, email systems, and so
forth).
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Characterize the data your directory needs to contain.
Determine what objects should be present in your directory (for example
people or groups), and what attributes of these objects you need to maintain in
your directory (such as user name and passwords).
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Determine the level of service you need to provide.
Decide how available your directory data needs to be to client applications and
design your architecture accordingly. How available your directory needs to
be affects how you replicate data and configure chaining policies to connect
data stored on remote servers.
For more information about replication, refer to Chapter 6, "Designing the
Replication Process" on page 95. For more information on chaining, refer to
Chapter 5, "Designing the Directory Topology" on page 77.
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Identify a data master.
A data master contains the primary source for directory data. This data might
be mirrored to other servers for load balancing and recovery purposes. For
each piece of data, determine its data master.
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Determine data ownership.
For each piece of data, determine the person responsible for ensuring that the
data is up-to-date.
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Determine data access.
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