HP OSMS Blueprint: Directory Services on HP ProLiant and HP Integrity Servers with RHEL5
Table Of Contents
- HP Open Source Middleware Stacks Blueprint:
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Typographic Conventions
- HP Encourages Your Comments
- Overview of HP Directory Services OSMS
- Installing and Configuring Symas CDS and Apache Modules
- Managing the Symas CDS Server
- Performing Backups and Recovery with Berkeley DB
- Configuring the Master-Slave Replication
- Integrating the Apache HTTP Server with the mod_authnz_ldap and mod_ldap Modules
- Setting up Security for the CDS Server
- Monitoring OpenLDAP with the HP OpenView Operations CDS Gallery SPIs
(Berkely DB) package. CDS also includes a comprehensive set of modules which implement
enterprise features, such as password policy management, referential integrity, and attribute
uniqueness.
HP Directory Services OSMS stack includes the Symas CDS Gold Edition bundled components,
a commercial open source software. Depending on the architecture used in the stack, Symas CDS
uses different versions of the various packages, as displayed in Table 1.
Table 1 Commercial Open Source Packages
OpenSSL
Version
SASL VersionBerkely DB Version
OpenLDAP
Version
CDS VersionArchitecture
0.9.712.1.224.2.522.3.303.6.1RHEL5 on x86
0.9.712.1.224.2.522.3.303.6.1
RHEL5 on HP
Integrity
0.9.712.1.224.2.522.3.303.6.2RHEL5 on x86_64
NOTE: The OpenLDAP and Berkely DB packages contain selected patches and enhancements.
The Apache mod_ldap and mod_authnz_ldap modules are community open source software
from the RHEL5 distribution. To integrate the Apache HTTP server and CDS, the
mod_authnz_ldap and mod_ldap connectors are used in the stack as part of the Apache HTTP
server.
HP OpenView Operations (OVO) Gallery Smart Plug-Ins (SPI) is a proprietary software included
in the HP Directory Services OSMS. The HP OVO Gallery SPI software can be found at:
http://h20229.www2.hp.com/products/spi
Hardware Environment
The software contained in the HP Directory Services OSMS stack are installed on HP ProLiant
and BladeSystem servers with locally attached SCSI or SATA disks. The hardware environment
is described in Figure 1.
Figure 1 Hardware Environment
Overview of HP Directory Services OSMS 7