What This Course Doesn't Cover

Although we'll cover a lot of material in this course, there are a number of subjects we won't cover. If your objective is to learn one of these subjects, you may be better off taking the lecture-based course, Meta-Directory: Implementation & Configuration.

This course will not teach you everything you need to know before deploying Meta-Directory in a mission-critical role.

Analysis & Planning

Implementing an enterprise-level meta-directory service is a complex undertaking which requires substantial analysis and planning. There are significant issues in the pre-deployment process which are beyond the scope of this course; these topics are covered in great detail in a follow-up course, iPlanet Directory Services: Analysis & Planning.

Distributed Deployment

In real-world environments, an iPlanet Meta-Directory installation (the Meta-Directory software and the Directory Server software) can be spread across a number of systems and networks. In this course we'll install everything on a single Windows NT system.

Advanced Administration

There are many aspects of administering Meta-Directory that won't be covered in this course. We'll just introduce some of the basic features so you can start experimenting on your own using a sample installation.

Integration With Other Services

The 1.0 version of iPlanet Meta-Directory requires a directory server to implement key components of the service. Meta-Directory is designed to run with any LDAP compliant (version 3) directory service. However, only iPlanet Directory Server 4.11 has been fully tested and approved for use with Meta-Directory.

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