Symlabs Virtual Directory Server
Simplicity and Power Combined
Symlabs Virtual Directory Server leads the industry in performance. It is the most powerful and flexible software component you can add to improve the operation and administration of your enterprise directory services.
Symlabs Virtual Directory Server is a middleware application that abstracts back-end data from client applications, giving you the ability to:
- create virtual unified views of data stored within heterogeneous back-end repositories
- implement a single granular security policy for all back-end repositories
- improve overall performance through the use of load-balancing and search caching
- increase availability through health-checking and failover mechanisms
- easily deploy customized scripts based on the content of requests and responses moving between clients and backend repositories
"... a virtual directory is the building block, or foundation, you should be looking at for your next identity management project."
- Dave Kearns, Network World
Symlabs Virtual Directory Server makes it possible 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' product was more powerful and easier to use than the other vendor products"
- Nick Hilhorst, Fortis
Symlabs Virtual Directory Server delivers blazing speed, extraordinary data security, and maximum ease-of-use. Its unique staged architecture makes configuration simple while retaining versatility and flexibility, allowing it to be customized for a wide range of implementations. This lets companies easily adapt to changing requirements and overcome common problems when deploying virtual directory and identity management applications, resulting in smoother, faster project implementations than would be possible using any other product.
The latest release, version 6.0, integrates more tightly than ever with the key technologies that businesses depend on today, such as Microsoft Active Directory and Single Sign-On, and provides new features that make it exceptionally easy to deploy and use. Best of all, it's even faster!
New Features In Symlabs Virtual Directory Server 6.0
- A new GSSAPI/SASL interface works with Kerberos on front-end listeners or back-end repositories so a wider range of applications can use Active Directory
- Support for Microsoft's S4U Kerberos extensions, allows you to configure Virtual Directory Server to take advantage of delegation to ensure that authenticated connections make use of the correct credentials
- A new Automatic HTTP Server Groups feature can integrate B2B applications via web services or generic XML over SOAP and handle all routing and recovery chores
- 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
- Improved GUI Configuration tools, including new wizards to assist more advanced situations, such as database integration
- 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
- Support added for BIND requests against integrated relational database records
- Script editing now in an external editor, plus improvements to the built-in editor
- Improved documentation and support facilities
- Numerous code enhancements
All these new capabilities not only demonstrate Symlabs' commitment to responiveness and product evolution, they further extend the benefits that have already made Symlabs Virtual Directory Server the key high-performance addition for any complex directory services infrastructure:
Enhances Overall Architecture
- Creates an abstraction layer between client applications and data repositories
- Provides a wide range of integration options through the support of many commonly used protocols
- Offers the ability to use a variety of back-end data repository types to service requests
- Includes an LDAP to RDBMs Bridge, so that LDAP clients are able to access data stored within a relational database as if it were part of an original DIT
- 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
- Offers powerful request routing functionality
Improves Security
- Provides granular filtering controls to effectively firewall operations and network traffic
- Includes an ACL plug-in that allows 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
- The staged architecture facilitates scripted behaviors that can be triggered to act on packets of data as they traverse the Virtual Directory Server
Delivers the Most Platform and Protocol Support Options
- 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(S), HTTP(S), RADIUS, DIAMETER, MM7, SMPP, SIP, SOAP and Raw TCP/UDP