Dear team,
I have a need to query two different LDAP servers in different domains, all the tools I have today I can query only one server a time, so I am looking if Openldap can do this requirement ?
I'll appreciate if any body could advise.
Best regards
Fathi
Houaichine, Fathi (Fathi) wrote:
I have a need to query two different LDAP servers in different domains, all the tools I have today I can query only one server a time, so I am looking if Openldap can do this requirement ?
OpenLDAP's back-meta comes to mind. But your question is not very specific. What tools are you using and what does querying two different servers really mean? And you should tell us which name spaces your two servers hold.
Ciao, Michael.
Thanks Michael,
Honestly I don't know exactly the Openldap solution, but may you know Avaya, we are a global telecommunications vendor, with our IP telephony solution, our phones can query the LDAP directory using an LDAP think client developed by us, so our phone communicate with this thin client application then this application will query the LDAP server. In our application today we have a limitation and we can send a query to only one LDAP server a time.
I have some cases where my customers have different LDAP servers (Microsoft LDAP), located in different domains and we need to query those server with the same time. I was browsing the web if I can find any application that allow to query different LDAP server so I can use it as a work around.
Hope the case is more clear, and I'll appreciate if you can advise.
Thanks once again
Best regards
Fathi
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-----Original Message----- From: openldap-technical-bounces+houaichine=avaya.com@OpenLDAP.org [mailto:openldap-technical-bounces+houaichine=avaya.com@OpenLDAP.org] On Behalf Of Michael Ströder Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 4:36 PM To: Houaichine, Fathi (Fathi) Cc: openldap-technical@openldap.org Subject: Re: LDAP inquiry
Houaichine, Fathi (Fathi) wrote:
I have a need to query two different LDAP servers in different domains, all the tools I have today I can query only one server a time, so I am looking if Openldap can do this requirement ?
OpenLDAP's back-meta comes to mind. But your question is not very specific. What tools are you using and what does querying two different servers really mean? And you should tell us which name spaces your two servers hold.
Ciao, Michael.
Houaichine, Fathi (Fathi) wrote:
Honestly I don't know exactly the Openldap solution,
But you know your requirements.
I have some cases where my customers have different LDAP servers (Microsoft LDAP), located in different domains and we need to query those server with the same time. I was browsing the web if I can find any application that allow to query different LDAP server so I can use it as a work around.
So you need a LDAP reverse proxy which spreads a search across several LDAP servers.
back-meta seems promising, see man 5 slapd-meta
back-meta have many things in common with back-ldap (simpler reverse proxy), see also http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/532.html
Doing this with AD can be tricky but there has been some discussions about this here already.
Ciao, Michael.
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