Symlabs LDAP Proxy
Reliable, Scalable, and Secure
Symlabs LDAP Proxy leads the industry in flexibility. It adds a layer of abstraction between client applications and back-end data repositories, so you can enhance overall performance, increase failover capabilities, or alter the presentation of data stored in your repositories on-the-fly. With its built-in functionalities and bundled library of plug-ins, Symlabs LDAP Proxy is one of the most powerful components you can add to your existing directory infrastructure - it can be used in an almost infinite number of configurations to resolve problems associated with LDAP back-end data repositories.
Symlabs LDAP Proxy is built on the core engine used in Symlabs Virtual Directory Server, and inherits many of its features, including:
- virtual unified views of data stored within heterogeneous back-end LDAP repositories
- performance enhancing load-balancing algorithms, connection pooling, and search caching facilities
- health checking and failover mechanisms that improve availability
- filtering and ACL mechanisms to implement a consolidated security policy
- a staged architecture that facilitates customized scripts to manipulate requests and responses moving between clients and back-end repositories
"The LDAP Proxy works brilliantly. We saved a lot of effort and money by using this product"
- Juan Cortez, HPCG
Symlabs LDAP Proxy gives you the ability to quickly modify the presentation of data on the fly, so you can easily integrate new applications into your existing identity infrastructure without any requirement to alter directory information - your data remains in its original place and format. The software has been ported to and optimized for all major platforms, allowing it to run in environments where a variety of operating systems may be used. Configurations are platform independent and can be managed remotely either using a Java based GUI, or through a web-based front-end.
Symlabs LDAP Proxy delivers blazing speed, extraordinary data security, and maximum ease-of-use. It is designed to provide a cost effective alternative to a virtual directory which includes the critical subset of that functionality many of our clients have asked for. Symlabs LDAP Proxy incorporates a smaller range of protocols when compared to Symlabs Virtual Directory Server, and does not integrate with relational database back-end servers.
The latest release, version 6.0, integrates more tightly than ever with key technologies such as Microsoft Active Directory that businesses depend on today, and provides new features that make it exceptionally easy to deploy and use. Best of all, it's even faster!
New Features In Symlabs LDAP Proxy 6.0
- A powerful Extension Facility now makes customization or updating easier and more flexible by enabling downloading and installation of plug-ins to the configuration as needed
- Additional Standard Plug-ins for Active Directory environments, enhanced security, and handling specific tasks such as DN Suffix Mapping
- GUI enhancements streamline deployment and operation while performance improvements ensure the greatest speed possible
- A new interface to external LDAP browsers and a new separate LDAP Browser bundled in that might just become a standard tool to use across your entire directory infrastructure
Symlabs LDAP Proxy incorporates the expertise and knowledge developed by Symlabs in over 100 deployments to-date, and this has spawned numerous features that were built in when major release version 5.0 was created. Here are a few examples:
- Increased list of default plug-ins (standard functions), including new plug-ins specifically for LDAP Servers
- Virtual Tree option for LDAP listeners
- Log level changes now done on-the-fly for debugging of live instances
- Enhanced Remote Administration Server with a new web-based management front-end
- New features specifically for Active Directory to handle cross domain authentication and to route on domains
- Improved canonicalization options
- Script editing now in an external editor, plus improvements to the built-in editor
- Improved documentation and support facilities
- Numerous code enhancements
- Improved GUI Configuration tools
All these new capabilities not only demonstrate Symlabs' commitment to responsiveness and product evolution, they further extend the benefits that have already made Symlabs LDAP Proxy a key high-performance addition for any complex directory services infrastructure:
Enhances Overall Architecture
- Creates an abstraction layer between client applications and data repositories
- Offers the ability to use a variety of back-end data repository types to service requests
- Presents a 'Virtual Tree' to unify data from discrete heterogeneous data repositories without impacting existing infrastructure
- Establishes an easily-scalable architecture through the use of managed ServerGroups
Increases Performance
- Includes a collection of load balancing and failover algorithms
- Provides search caching for LDAP requests
- Delivers powerful request routing functionality
Improves Security
- Provides granular filtering controls to effectively firewall operations and network traffic
- Includes an ACL plug-in that can allow you to develop a single security policy and apply it to all back-end servers
- Contains a number of powerful logging utilities that can be used for auditing and data recovery purposes
Built-In Manageability
- Offers flexible Remote Administration and configuration options using either a Java based GUI, or a standard Web browser
- Includes a huge collection of plug-ins to automate tasks
- Provides integrated health checking facilities
Easily Customized and Extended
- All plugins are easily modifiable to allow for customization
- Staged architecture facilitates scripted behaviors that can be triggered to act on packets of data as they traverse the LDAP Proxy
Delivers Broad Platform and Protocol Support
- Engine support for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX
- Java-based client configuration and administration tools, web-based administration panel
- Protocol support includes LDAP and LDAPS