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Novell eDirectory is the foundation for the world's largest identity management deployments, and is a high-end directory service that allows businesses to manage identities and security access for employees, customers, and partners. With eDirectory, businesses lay the groundwork for secure identity management solutions and multi-platform network services.

Novell eDirectory is compatible with a host of open and emerging standards. It is LDAP Certified by The Open Group, signifying conformance to the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol version 3 (LDAP v3) standard. eDirectory also supports Extensible Markup Language (XML), Directory Services Markup Language (DSML), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), and many other open standards. This support helps organizations maximize their technology investments and avoid getting locked in to any particular vendor's product set.

Equally important, eDirectory is truly multi-platform: It runs natively on Linux, Windows, Solaris, and AIX, so eDirectory is an ideal way to host identity services within heterogeneous networks.

With eDirectory, you have real-time control over users' access to network resources. If you terminate their access to the network, they will be instantly locked out. Swift, precise control over users and resources helps block unauthorized access and saves you money. eDirectory also provides a very flexible security framework, including support for any combination of biometrics, smart cards, tokens, digital certificates, and other authentication methods.

Only Novell eDirectory provides top-to-bottom business continuity assurances. eDirectory includes automated self-maintenance to catch and correct minor errors, as well as industry-leading multi-master data replication to ensure always-on failover capabilities. And finally, eDirectory can back up its data while the system is online, facilitating comprehensive disaster recovery in the event of a large-scale outage.

No other directory can match the scalability that Novell eDirectory offers: it has been publicly scaled to one billion identities. This means that as your business grows, eDirectory can easily accommodate additional identities without any performance degradation.

Novell eDirectory provides flexible, centralized management of users, resources, devices, and policies. Its management console, Novell iManager, provides secure, Web-based access to all administration functions. This feature eliminates both administrative redundancy and unnecessary travel, saving you time and money.

What's New in eDirectory 8.8 SP7

  • Improved and simplified clustering support, including a new utility for configuring eDirectory in a cluster environment
  • Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 password policy
  • Change Cache Dump Report in iMonitor
  • Support for Microsoft Large Integer Syntax in LDAP and iManager
  • Local caching of XDASv2 auditing events

    • What's New in eDirectory 8.8 SP6

  • XDAS Support

    What's New in eDirectory 8.8 SP5

  • Multi-platform support (Refer to the eDirectory 8.8 SP7 Installation Guide eDirectory 8.8 SP5 Installation Guide for information on all the supported platforms)
  • Solaris Zones support
  • Option to install Secret Store (Earlier Secret Store was installed by default when eDirectory was installed)
  • Independent eDirectory Instrumentation installation (Earlier eDirectory Instrumentation was a part of Novell Audit)
  • Addition of a switch (-e) to the eDirectory backup solution (eMBox backup and DSBK) to facilitate NICI backup and restore (Earlier NICI backup and restore had to be performed manually)
  • The ndspassstore utility
  • The LDAP Get effective privileges list API

    • What's New in eDirectory 8.8 SP3

  • 64-bit eDirectory Support for SLES 10 SP1
  • Events for Auditing LDAP Operations
  • ACL Optimization for Sub-Tree Search Operations

    • What's New in eDirectory 8.8 SP2

  • Nested Groups
  • Advanced Referral Costing
  • eDirectory Performance Enhancements

    • What's New in eDirectory 8.8 SP1

  • dsbk on AIX
  • ICE on Windows
  • Silent Upgrade on NetWare
  • Silent Upgrade on Windows
  • Dibupgrade Utility
  • Offline Bulk Load Utility
  • NMAS Thread Pooling - changes to authentication sequence

    • What's New in eDirectory 8.8

    Novell eDirectory 8.8, for all supported platforms, is available for free for evaluation in nonproduction environments. If you want to run Novell eDirectory 8.8 in a production environment, see How to Buy Novell eDirectory.

    If you are currently running Novell eDirectory 8.7 or 8.7.x, or have current upgrade protection for eDirectory or any Novell product with which eDirectory is bundled, the upgrade to Novell eDirectory 8.8 is available for free for use in production environments. If you are running a version of eDirectory prior to 8.7, have not purchased an eDirectory 8.7.x license, and do not have upgrade protection, you can purchase the eDirectory 8.8 software license at the upgrade price available through your licensing program.

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    For more information on Novell eDirectory 8.8, refer to the Novell eDirectory 8.8 documentation.