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Isode M-Vault Server Module Overview

M-Vault is a high performance LDAP Server, with replication, advanced security features, and flexible cross platform management tools. M-Vault is ideal for any ISP or organization needing a high performance LDAP Server.

 

M-Vault is sold as an LDAP Server, although the core product is an integrated LDAP/X.500 server. M-Vault is also sold as M-Vault X.500, and the product overview describes X.500 conformance. All supported X.500 capabilities such as replication and access control are available in M-Vault.

Key Benefits

There are many reasons why the M-Vault Server is the right choice for providing directory services, including:

Scalability and High Performance

A single server can contain millions of entries. Benchmarking demonstrates that M-Vault read, search and modification functionality compares very favourably with other products (more).

Reliability and Fault Tolerance

M-Vault uses an underlying high-end database transaction subsystem, which provides assurance that hardware, operating system or application failures will not corrupt a directory server database. This transaction support also enables on-line backup procedures for disaster-recovery.

Data can be replicated using X.500 DISP (Directory Information Shadowing Protocol). This enables the various servers in a distributed directory to hold local copies of data held elsewhere in order to ensure data is available if one server in the network goes down. This scheme can also be used to configure a failover cluster, ensuring that mission critical data is always available (more).

Replication, Data Distribution and Security

Data can be distributed across servers using X.500 DSP (Directory System Protocol). Enterprise LDAP servers can also be connected into a distributed directory using inbuilt LDAP chaining technology.

Data can be replicated between servers using X.500 DISP (Directory Information Shadowing Protocol), and this capability is crucial in most M-Vault deployments. Isode provides flexible replication management and replication filtering.

Server to server communication (DSP Chaining and DISP Replication) are secured using X.509 PKI based strong authentication.

LDAP communication between the client and the directory server can be performed using a secure SSL/TLS session thus enabling encryption and data integrity on the link. Additionally, SSL/TLS can offer optional authentication of the server, or of both the client and the server. LDAP users can authenticate using standard SASL mechanisms (more).

Manageability

Advanced configuration and data management tools. These enable the server to be easily deployed and managed in a wide range of intranet and extranet environments. You can find out more about management tools and options in the M-Vault Management section.

Standards conformance

Direct support for LDAP, enabling effective support of LDAP clients and LDAP enabled applications. X.500 and LDAP protocol support enables interoperability with other directory servers (more).