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LDAP High Availability and Message Level Optimization

LDAP Splitting, LDAP Messaging Redirection and Load Distribution


AppDirector’s™ LDAP splitting intelligently manages LDAP messaging loads, enabling the distribution of LDAP messages from a single transmission control protocol (TCP) connection, that often represents hundreds of aggregated LDAP client requests across multiple LDAP servers. AppDirector and AppXcel’s LDAP splitting mechanism makes it possible to eliminate service latencies and process LDAP requests in parallel, based on availability and load, while maintaining LDAP transaction persistency to manage the entire LDAP transaction using the same LDAP server. In addition, by distributing LDAP processing across servers, AppDirector overcomes traffic peaks and manages the bursts resulting from high reconnection rates following infrastructure component failures.

LDAP High Availability


The health of the LDAP application and LDAP servers are continuously monitored to identify and bypass transaction failures. AppDirector and AppXcel perform LDAP server health checks based on session creation, client authentication and LDAP querying to search for a specified object. In the event of LDAP server failure, AppDirector and AppXcel redirect LDAP requests to an operative LDAP server for uninterrupted and high-performing processing.

Virtualized LDAP Architecture and Global Disaster Recovery


AppDirector Global enables the virtualization of all LDAP servers, making it possible to manage LDAP resources across multiple data centers and geographic locations for service redundancy, flexible and cost-effective LDAP infrastructure management and full, immediate disaster recovery.

LDAP Consolidation and Scalability for CAPEX/OPEX Savings


Employing AppDirector to front-end LDAP services makes it possible to split loads across multiple small scaled servers, eliminating the need to design LDAP server capacities based on peak traffic from a single LDAP session, affording immediate CAPEX savings. In addition, by enabling the creation of consolidated, optimized LDAP service architectures across heterogeneous networks, AppDirector enables high scalability for OPEX savings.