Part II

Oracle Unified Directory Concepts and Architecture

This part describes the details of how Oracle Unified Directory works. These chapters cover the architecture of Oracle Unified Directory and the various components that make up that architecture.

In general, you do not need a thorough understanding of all of these concepts in order to administer Oracle Unified Directory, but an overview of these chapters might help to make your administration easier.

This part includes the following chapters:

• Chapter 4, "Understanding Oracle Unified Directory Concepts and Architecture"

• Chapter 5, "Understanding the Oracle Unified Directory Replication Model"

• Chapter 6, "Understanding the Oracle Unified Directory Indexing Model"

• Chapter 7, "Understanding the Oracle Unified Directory Access Control Model"

• Chapter 8, "Understanding the Oracle Unified Directory Schema Model"

• Chapter 9, "Understanding Root Users and the Privilege Subsystem"

• Chapter 10, "Understanding the Proxy Functionality"

• Chapter 11, "Understanding Oracle Unified Directory Mapping"