
High performance and high availability LDAP and X.500 servers that
ship with powerful cross-platform management tools, Isode's M-Vault
family of Directory Servers incorporate extensive security features,
are quick to install and easy to use.
Directory Servers
The M-Vault family of products from Isode provide robust, scalable
and trusted LDAP/X.500 directory services. The three M-Vault products
are:
- M-Vault provides high-performance, replicated
and managed LDAP infrastructure.
- M-Vault X.500 is a high performance
directory server, which can operate as a full X.500 DSA (Directory
System Agent) as well as providing LDAP access.
- M-Vault Connector can be used
to connect an LDAP-only directory server as part of an X.500 Directory
Service or build an integrated, mixed (LDAP or X.400) directory service.
Isode provides a Directory Client
API to enable applications to access a directory in order to perform
authentication and to obtain configuration information.
Directory Server Management
an overview of directory server management tools can be found here.
Server management tools can be divided into three categories.
- Configuration Management: Enterprise Directory Management (EDM)
prpvides for the management and systems' administration of large-scale
directory services, including; configuration of databases, server
control, replciated data, authentication agreements, and access control
management (more).
- Operational Management: Covering the Isode Directory Console (DConsole),
SNMP Monitoring, Audit, Event and Fault Logging, as well as backup
and disaster recovery (more).
- M-Vault Data Access and Management: Including Sodium (Secure Open
Data, Identity and User Manager), a tool for managing the data held
in LDAP/X.500 enterprise directory servers, the Isode Web-Directory
Access Server which enables a user to utilize a standard WWW browser
to access information in an LDAP Directory and Bulk-loading and dumping
of data (more).
- Directory Synchronization: Utilizing Sodium-Sync to synchronize
data from one directory server to another using LDAP or X.500 DAP
(more).
Evaluations
All Isode servers and management tools are available for evaluation.
Click on the relevant link below for more information.
- M-Vault: LDAP/X.500 Directory
Server. This is a pre-requisite for the ATN Directory evaluation and
the Strong Authentication evaluation.
- Strong Authentication:
configuring M-Vault to use X.509 based strong authentication
Supported Platforms
M-Vault is available on Solaris, Windows, Linux and HP-UX. More
details on supported platforms and versions can be found here.