Tivoli Directory Server

Industry-standard architecture

• Uses LDAP identity infrastructure software and meets LDAP v3 industry compliance standards.
• Fits well into an existing environment and offers the flexibility to add new directory-enabled IBM or non-IBM applications in the future.

Broad platform support

• Supports leading platforms including IBM AIX®, IBM i5/OS®, IBM z/OS®, Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows Server, HP-UX, and SUSE and Red Hat Linux distributions.
• Has been evaluated under the Common Criteria at Evaluated Assurance Level 4, augmented by ALC_FLR.1 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition, AIX 6.1, Sun Solaris 10 (SPARC), HP-UX 11i v3 (Itanium), Red Hat Advanced Server 5.1 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1.

Strong scalability and flexibility

• Offers a built-in proxy server. This provides extensive scalability for entries and groups.
• Includes IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator functionality. This enables Tivoli Directory Server to be used as an enterprise directory in a heterogeneous environment.
• Serves as the default directory infrastructure for IBM WebSphere® Application Server, IBM WebSphere Portal, IBM Tivoli Identity Manager, IBM Tivoli Access Manager and the AIX operating system.
• Uses IBM DB2® technology as its back-end store.

High availability

• Maintains high availability with master/subordinate and peer-to-peer replication capabilities. Supports scheduled online or offline backup and restore.
• Supports virtual list views so you can scroll forward or backward through entries in a large sorted data set. You can also record deleted entries.
• Enhances proxy server capabilities with flow control for managing requests and paging search results for single and multiple partitions. Provides a smart fail-back mechanism to restore servers safely.
• Offers strong replication features. Can configure multiple master copies to provide highly-available implementations for global enterprise 24x7 application support.