Overview of Directory Proxy Server Features

Directory Proxy Server provides the following features:

• Manageability

  • Single point of access to directory data stored on multiple directory servers

  • Automatic referral following

  • Reactive and proactive monitoring of directory servers

  • Configuration on the command line or with a GUI

  • All connections have a normal listener port and a secure listener port

• Authentication and authorization

  • Certificate-based authentication with certificate mapping

  • Secure LDAP reverse proxy

  • LDAP control filtering

  • Proxy authorization

  • Identity mapping

  • Access control

• Distribution

  • Single point of access to a directory service spread over multiple directory servers

  • Extensible and customizable distribution algorithm

  • Server affinity to address propagation delay problem

  • Connection pooling and partial BER-decoding for performance and scalability

• Load-balancing/Fail-over

  • Routing based on the operation or the connection

  • Automatic load balancing and automatic fail over and fail back among a set of replicated LDAP directory servers

  • Three load-balancing algorithms

• Virtualization

  • Multiple virtual views for client applications

  • Aggregation of multiple heterogeneous data sources

  • Mapping of attribute names and values

  • Access to JDBC-compliant data repositories

  • Access to flat LDIF file resources