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Directory Services at Texas Instruments. Jim May Senior Member Technical Staff jmay@ti.com. How many directories do you have ?. Human resources Contractor information Lotus Notes MS Exchange Telephone numbers Distributed Security. MS Mail cc:Mail SAP Help desk/problem tracking
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Directory Services at Texas Instruments Jim May Senior Member Technical Staff jmay@ti.com
How many directories do you have? • Human resources • Contractor information • Lotus Notes • MS Exchange • Telephone numbers • Distributed Security • MS Mail • cc:Mail • SAP • Help desk/problem tracking • SMTP/POP3 readers • Relational DBs or flat files
From PH to X.500/LDAP • Early 90’ 3 installations of QI/PH • Central distribution of QI data • 1995 first prototype directory loaded • 1996 first pilot DSA (1988) loaded • 1997 March - replaced 1988 with 1993 version. Single master/two user servers • 1997 Assigned DS aliases for ‘site’ directories
Current status of DS Servers • 1 Master directory server located in Plano • 20 Consumer/Users servers with locations worldwide • 78,000 people entries in the directory • Data sources - Employees, contractors, mainframe legacy mail system, others • Main users - SMTP mail infrastructure, phone number lookup.
DS input feed processing Processing is done via Perl script that is scheduled with cron HR data XID data MSG data SSi Data Andersen Data Odsdump dbm database db.ready db.update Ldap updates adds modify delete Files are made available for customer use via anonymous FTP
Sources of DS data Human Resources Security User
Suggestions for Deployment • Make it easy for them to get to the directory • Use ‘standard’ attribute names for commonly used attributes • Provide programming help/examples • Keep data current • Get a ‘killer application’ • email • company photos • phone book
What’s left to do • Metadirectory • Continue web interface enhancements • Continue DSA fanout • Reduce use of output DS feed files • Help users develop their applications
Questions? • Jim May • jmay@ti.com