This section provides information on the following:
For information on DirXML fundamentals, see the Nsure Identity Manager Administration Guide.
The Driver for Delimited Text supports Publisher and Subscriber channels:
By default, the Publisher does the following:
By default, the Subscriber keeps an output file open until either 200 transactions have been logged or 30 seconds have elapsed. When either of these thresholds is reached, the output file is saved with a number.csv filename and a new output file is opened.
The sample configuration that ships with this driver includes both Subscriber and Publisher channels. However, in many configurations, only one-way data flow is required. In those configurations, only a Publisher or Subscriber channel is used. The other channel is disabled.
Policies are used to control data synchronization between the driver and eDirectory. The Driver for Delimited Text comes with the set of preconfigured policies detailed in the following table. You can customize these policies by using Novell iManager, as explained in Customizing the DirXML Driver for Delimited Text .
The sample configuration currently supports two types of files:
Comma-separated values (CSV) files are text files that contain data divided into fields and records. Fields are delimited by commas, and records are delimited by a hard return.
If you need a comma or hard return within the value of a particular field, the entire field value should be enclosed in quotes.
Because the meaning of each field in a CSV file is derived from its position, each record in a CSV file should have the same number of fields. Field values can be left blank, but each record should have the same number of delimiter characters.
XDS format is the defined Novell subset of possible XML formats. This is the initial format for data coming from eDirectory. By modifying default rules and changing the style sheets, the Delimited Text driver could be configured to work with any XML format.
For detailed information on XDS format, refer to NDS DTD Commands and Events.
For information on configuring the driver to use XML files in the XDS format, refer to Configuring for XDS XML Files.