Always exciting to see a successful new product launch. Version 1.0 is always the hardest and I think you'll agree that the team has done a really good job on this one.
Basically we've automated the entire process of Unix and Linux account centralization.
Yes. I know. It's been technically possible to do this to some degree for a while and we in fact are leveraging existing, standard technology as part of this offering.
However, if it was so easy to do already, why do nearly all of the customers I speak with tell me that they've not completed such a project after years of trying? The answer: it's actually pretty hard to do right. Or rather, it was.
If you're using an environment with Linux (RedHat, OEL, SUSE), Solaris, HP-UX, and/or AIX systems, you can follow some simple directions that will:
- automatically configure a directory server instance to hold your users,
- migrate your users from files, NIS, or other LDAP directories, and
- perform client configuration across your managed systems -- including SSL.
This last bit about SSL is particularly important, given that we've seen customers spend months trying to get this to work across all of their platforms due to the myriad of SSL implementations out there.
All of this is pre-certified end-to-end.
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