Implementation Phase

During the implementation phase, you work from specifications and plans created during deployment design to build the deployment architecture and implement the solution. Depending on the nature of your deployment project, this phase includes some or all of the following tasks:

• Installing and configuring the hardware infrastructure

• Installing and configuring the software

• Modeling users and resources within an LDAP directory design

• Migrating data from existing directories and databases according to a user management plan

• Creating and deploying pilot and prototype deployments in a test environment

• Designing and running functional tests to measure compliance with system requirements

• Designing and running stress tests to measure performance under peak loads

• Developing and integrating any custom enterprise applications

• Creating a production deployment, which might be phased into production in stages

  Once a deployment is in production, you proceed to the operations phase of the solution life cycle.

For more information on the implementation phase, refer to Chapter 6, Implementation of a Deployment Design