Documenting Your Site Survey - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.01 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual

Documenting Your Site Survey

Because of the complexity of data design, document the results of your site
surveys. During each step of the site survey we have suggested simple tables for
keeping track of your data. Consider building a master table that outlines your
decisions and outstanding concerns. You can build this table with the
word-processing package of your choice, or use a spreadsheet so that the table's
contents can easily be sorted and searched.
A simple example of a table follows. The table identifies data ownership and data
access for each piece of data identified by the site survey.
Data Name Owner
Employee HR
name
User IS
password
Home phone HR
number
Employee IS
location
Office phone Facilities
number
Looking at the row representing the employee name data, we see the following:
• Owner
Human Resources owns this information and therefore is responsible for
updating and changing it.
• Master Server/Application
The PeopleSoft application manages employee name information.
• Self Read/Write
A person can read their own name, but not write (or change) it.
• Global Read
Master Self
Server/Application Read/Write
People Soft Read-only
Directory US-1 Read/Write
People Soft Read/Write
Directory US-1 Read-only
Phone switch Read-only
Global Read HR
Writable
Yes (anonymous) Yes
No No
No Yes
Yes (must log in) No
Yes (anonymous) No
Chapter 2 How to Plan Your Directory Data
Performing a Site Survey
IS
Writable
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
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