Secure Identity Management: Novell eDirectory
Features and Benefits
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Novell® eDirectory™ is the foundation for the world's largest identity management deployments’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, directory service administration, and multiplatform network services.
features
To meet the demands of large-scale, high-end directory deployments, Novell eDirectory:
- Runs on Linux, NetWare, Windows, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX
- Supports open and emerging standards
- Enforces security dynamically
- Incorporates a flexible security framework
- Provides failover and disaster recovery
- Scales to more than one billion identities
- Manages all identities, resources, devices and policies
- Offers complete Web-based administration
- Enhances installation and updates with scriptable installation
- Determines whether the directory tree and host server are safe to upgrade
- Allows customers to specify separate locations for eDirectory application files and the data files
- Allows customers to rapidly bulkload data into eDirectory
- Shares new passwords or password changes with multiple servers at once, ensuring users have an instantaneous and seamless login experience
- Accepts case-sensitive passwords
benefits
With a Novell eDirectory identity foundation, you can do the following:
- Simplify administration to reduce costs
- Manage the network from virtually anywhere
- Safeguard resources with layered security
- Improve interoperability
- Leverage existing systems
- Deliver personalized services
Novell eDirectory is the industry's best choice for large-scale, high-end directory deployments. With unmatched scalability and reliability, a flexible yet strong security architecture, compatibility with key industry standards and operating systems, and manageability that is second to none, eDirectory can meet the demands of your business.
