OpenDS 1.0.0 released - "ಓಪನ್ ದಿಸ್ "
delivers a fully compliant LDAPv3 server (*) that
passes all of the compliance, interoperability and security tests
suites. OpenDS 1.0.0 implements most the standard and
experimental LDAP extensions defined in the IETF as RFCs or
Internet-Drafts, ensuring maximum interoperability with LDAP client
applications as said by Ludo- A 6 steps graphical installation tool that allows to have a server configured, up and running in less than 3 minutes.
- A graphical status panel
- A rich command line tool to perform all online administrative tasks both interactively or scripted.
- Advance security and password policies
- Advance backup and restore capabilities.
- A DSML gateway servlet.
- A complete user documentation set.
The first recommendation is to use the latest version of the Java VM (as of today Java 6 update 6 aka 1.6.0_06).
Some recommendations for the Java VM settings have been published on the OpenDS Documentation Wiki .
More specifically, in order to have constant performance, tuning the
Garbage Collector is needed. We recommend the CMS GC or ParallelGC.
Finally,
OpenDS does provide better performances when the database files are
cached into memory. The initial size for the DB cache is 10% of the
heap size and is definitely under sized. A good rule of thumb is to
allocated a DB cache size about half of the heap size if the later is
below or equal to 2 GB, and for heap size greater than 2 GB to allocate
a DB cache size equal to the heap size minus 1GB.
- Native packages for OpenSolaris and Linux.
- Transactions for LDAP
- Assured Replication which is a replication model where a changed is assured to be received on at least 2 masters before it get acknowledge to the client application.
- Access to the log of changes over LDAP in order to provide external synchronization services.
- Basic management GUI for the most common tasks.
- Confidentiality and Encryption negotiation through SASL
- Improved performances
- DSML Gateway WAR
- Complete documentation of OpenDS 1.0.0.
