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Challenge

One of the more common problems facing enterprises today is that identity information can often be stored in a variety of repositories. Frequently this creates problems with regard to providing centralized authentication and means that finding the identity for a user can become a difficult task, involving sending numerous search queries to a variety of repositories.

In an ideal world, all identity data should be accessible within a single view. This would better facilitate authentication and would make it easier to locate a particular identity. Of course, this would also lose many of the advantages of storing data within directories in the first place. To achieve a singular view of all users would usually require some form of data replication and synchronization would certainly become an issue sooner or later. The perfect solution should be a virtual view of all users constructed on-the-fly from each repository, and should be able to handle authentication requests as normal.

Solution

Both Symlabs' Virtual Directory Server and Symlabs' LDAP Proxy include a fully automated plugin that can handle precisely such a scenario with minimal configuration. The Merge Trees plugin can be inserted into any solution and can instantly consolidate the entries stored in a number of different branches across several repositories, presenting all of the entries as belonging to a single virtual branch.

The Merge Trees plugin can be configured to merge trees into an existing branch, or even into a virtual branch in a virtual tree. Once you have specified the different datasources and branches that shouldbe merged together, the plugin will take care of rerouting each query and collating the results, so that all of the entries in each separate branch of presented together.

Merging different branches of users located on different servers becomes a very simple task, that can provide a global point of authentication for all of the applications within your enterprise. Both Symlabs' LDAP Proxy and Symlabs' Virtual Directory Server are relatively agnostic about the directories that you merge together. This means that you can effectively merge users stored in an Active Directory with users stored in an OpenDS or OpenLDAP directory, without a problem.

This powerful bundled plugin automatically resolves a number of common problems related to data fragmentation and distribution and performs data transformation on-the-fly so that you don't need to concern yourself with data replication or synchronization.