HP OSMS Blueprint: Directory Services on HP ProLiant Servers with SLES10

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Overview of HP Directory Services OSMS
Stack Components
The HP Directory Services OSMS stack consists of software packages from the following three
sources:
• Commercial open source vendors, such as Symas
• Community open source packages, such as Apache modules
• Proprietary software, such as HP OpenView Operations (OVO) Gallery Smart Plug-Ins (SPI)
Symas’ Connexitor Directory Services (CDS) software is a complete directory and authentication
services package that is powered by the open source Open Source Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol (OpenLDAP) project and is packaged for easy installation including all the dependent
additional packages necessary for installation. CDS is compiled with support for Secure Sockets
Layer (SSL), Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL), and the Symas-developed
high-performance back-bdb and back-hdb back ends, that are based on the Berkeley database
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