Key Benefits; Ldap Configuration; Scalability Parameters; Deployment Scenarios - Novell IFOLDER 3.8 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual

8.1 Key Benefits

The users are equally distributed across servers. This ensures that the load on servers is
approximately the same.

8.2 LDAP Configuration

The LDAP configuration information for deploying an iFolder master server as a load balancer is as
follows:
eDirectory
While configuring the iFolder server, use the LDAP Search Context option in YaST
that the master LDAP search group you specify is the superset of all the slaves. You can specify
all the slave search contexts, separated by commas. For example, o=org is the master LDAP
search group, and ou=KAR and ou=DL are the slave LDAP search groups. In this case, the
slave LDAP search groups should be the subset of the master LDAP search group. You can
either specify o=org as the LDAP search context or specify ou=KAR, ou=DL. In the latter case,
slaves have a specific search context or group containing users who can exclusively access the
slave server and store the data.
Ensure that each iFolder server has its own eDirectory replicas so that the authentication
happens locally instead of walking the eDirectory tree.
iFolder supports both secure and non-secure communication with the directory server. You can
choose any communication channel that you need. Ensure that the directory server is listening
on standard LDAP ports for secure and non-secure channels.

8.3 Scalability Parameters

The scalability parameters for an iFolder master server as a load balancer are as follows:
Every slave server is scalable to 1000 users.
Both SSL and non-SSL communication is supported.
The synchronization interval must be 5 minutes.
The master server must have a relatively smaller load than a slave server.

8.4 Deployment Scenarios

Section 8.4.1, "Information Management," on page 40
Section 8.4.2, "Load Balancing," on page 41

8.4.1 Information Management

Consider an example of an organization that has about 100,000 employees in 10 different locations
within a city and 10 different cities in a country. This organization wants to deploy Novell
for information management (storing, retrieving, and sharing) across cities. You want to make sure
that management overhead for the 100,000 users in this scenario does not become excessive.
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