Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services (2nd Edition)

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Data Design Checklist

• Develop an understanding of what applications will use your directory initially and in the future.

• Create a data policy statement.

• Create a list of the data elements needed by each directory-enabled application.

• Examine the application-specific lists to locate overlap among data elements.

• Characterize each data element by:

  • Format

  • Size of values

  • Number of occurrences

  • Data ownership

  • Consumers

  • Dynamic or static?

  • Shared or application-specific?

  • Relationship with other data elements

• Create a data source inventory for your entire organization.

• Create a plan for managing the relationship between data sources.

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