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Tuesday Oct 09, 2007

The highlight of the Monday sessions (for me) would have to be either the "Directory Server 6 - Tips, Tricks and Secrets" or the OpenPTK session.  The DS6 session talked about some add-on utilities to help you get stats from your LDAP server so you know what to tune.  The db_stat utility from the original sleepycat bits was one of the tools they used.  It's not shipped with the DSEE and not supported by Sun.  In fact, If the db_stat version is not the exact version that the underlying sleepycat db is, you can corrupt your data.  So it's not a tool to play with unless you really know what you are doing...  In fact, forget everything I just told you...

OpenPTK is the Open Provisioning Toolkit.  It's a kit that was assembled by some rockstars from the field(Sigle,Fehrman,Harcey).  Terry Sigle drove the effort of getting it officially released as an open source project.  As of (about) 5:35pm PST, OpenPTK is now officially released.  In a nutshell, OpenPTK allows you to do remote provisioning operations, utilizing SPML, without having to know SPML.  There are command line interfaces, so provisioning events can be scripted, and there is a webservices interface for "SOAfied" environments to make provisioning calls.

 (Pics, from today either didn't come out well, or were just plain boring...  Will try to take some good ones today)

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