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Preface

• Audience
• Accessing Oracle Communications Documentation
• Documentation Accessibility
• Document Revision History

1 About LDAP Manager

• How LDAP Manager Works
• About Setting Up Your LDAP Integration

2 Mapping Data between LDAP Data Manager and Your Directory Server

• About the LDAP Data Manager
• LDAP Data Manager API and Mapping Files
  • LDAP Data Manager Data Types
  • LDAP Data Manager Mapping Files
  • Sample Mapping File
  • LDAP Data Manager Class and Subclass Mapping Restrictions
  • LDAP Data Manager Supported Operations
  • LDAP Data Manager Unsupported Operations
  • LDAP Data Manager Predefined Mapping Schemes
• Understanding the BRM Object Model
  • Replicatable User Objects (/r_user)
  • Replica User Objects
• Understanding the Channel Framework
  • About Channels and Data Propagation
    • Channel Object Composition
    • Channel Event Composition
    • About Channel Families
    • About Channel Order
    • About Channel Publishing Mode
    • About Defining Channels
    • Example channel_config.xml File
    • How Channel Events are Published
  • Configuring How Channels are Published
    • Example of Publishing a Channel Family
  • About Setting Replicatable Objects as Consumers
    • Tracking New Account Creation
    • Tracking modifications to accounts
    • Tracking service creation
    • Tracking modifications to services
    • Understanding the Replication Policy Push Operation
• Understanding the Replication Module
  • Replication Policy Default Implementation
  • Defining the User Mapping Scheme
  • Related /account and /service Opcodes
  • Determining the /r_user Object Class Attributes
  • Creating the ruser Object Class in the Directory Server
  • Defining the One-to-One Mapping Scheme
    • One-to-One Mapping File Example
    • Changing the Replication Policy for the One-to-One Mapping Scheme

3 Managing the Directory Server Organization

• About Managing Directory Server Entries
• Semantics for the LDAP Modify Operation
  • Distinguished Name Field and the DN Flags Field
  • The Location Field
• Creating Directory Server Entries
  • Distinguished Name Control Logic for PCM_OP_CREATE_OBJ
  • Pre-Existing Distinguished Names
  • Supplying Distinguished Names
  • Not Supplying Distinguished Names
  • Understanding Matching Rules for Distinguished Names
    • Using Static Controls for DNs
    • Using Dynamic Controls for DNs
• Deleting Directory Server Entries
• Changing Directory Server Entries
  • Adding Attributes to an Existing Directory Server Entry
  • Deleting Attributes from an Existing Directory Server Entry
  • Renaming Directory Server Entries
  • Creating Subclass Objects in the Directory Server
  • Creating Related Entries Under One Node
• Specifying Directory Tree Entries
  • Using a Complete Distinguished Name
  • Using a Prefixed Distinguished Name
  • Using a Parent Distinguished Name (Create Operation Only)
  • Overriding the Base DN Location
• Reading and Searching for Directory Server Entries
  • Reading Objects from the Directory Server
    • Object Read examples
  • Reading Attributes from the Directory Server Entry
    • Attribute Read Examples
• Searching the Directory Server for Entries
  • Setting the Search Scope
  • Specifying the Base DN
  • Searching from Different Locations
    • Example Service Storable Class Tree and Search
  • Using the Sample LDAP Search Filters
    • LDAP Search Limitations
• Testing Directory Server Connections
• BRM LDAP Profile Object

4 Installing LDAP Manager

• System Requirements
  • Software Requirements
• Installing LDAP Manager
• Uninstalling LDAP Manager

5 Configuring LDAP Manager

• Configuring the LDAP Data Manager
  • Setting Up the Mapping File
  • Setting Up the Directory Server
  • Editing the LDAP Data Manager Configuration File
• Configuring the Connection Manager for LDAP Manager
  • Configuring the LDAP Data Manager for Multiple Schemas
  • Configuring the LDAP Data Manager with Different LDAP Data Manager Pointers
• Configuring Event Notification for LDAP Manager
• Loading the LDAP Price List
• Configuring the Channel Framework
  • Configuring the pin_channel_export Utility
  • Configuring Channel Definitions
  • Loading Channel Definitions into the BRM Database
  • Saving Channel Definitions to a File
• Enabling Secure Communication between LDAP Manager and LDAP Directory Servers

6 Customizing Your BRM LDAP Environment

• Exporting Additional Data to the Directory Server
  • Exporting Additional Fields from Objects
  • Tracking Additional Changes to /account or /service Objects
• Exporting New Service Types

7 Troubleshooting Your BRM LDAP Environment

• Checking for Event Errors and Recovering from Failure
• Verifying Event Creation by Running testnap
  • Status Values for Channel Events
• Verifying the Mapping Between Object Classes and Entries
  • Mismatches between the Mapping File and Directory Server Entries
    • Entry Class Type Definition Contains a Typo
    • Case or Spelling Mismatches in Attribute Names
  • Object Classes or Attributes are Missing in the Directory Server
    • Object Class Attributes Undefined in the Directory Server
    • Attribute Used in Mapping File is Undefined in the Directory Server
    • Directory Server Object Class is Created without Its Required Attributes
    • No Such Object Errors

8 LDAP Manager Utilities

• load_channel_config
• pin_channel_export