1. Directory Services at Texas Instruments Jim May Senior Member Technical Staff jmay@ti.com

2. How many directories do you have ? Human resources Contractor information Lotus Notes MS Exchange Telephone numbers Distributed Security MS Mail cc:Mail SAP Help desk/problem tracking SMTP/POP3 readers Relational DBs or flat files

3. From PH to X.500/LDAP Early 90’ 3 installations of QI/PH Central distribution of QI data 1995 first prototype directory loaded 1996 first pilot DSA (1988) loaded 1997 March - replaced 1988 with 1993 version. Single master/two user servers 1997 Assigned DS aliases for ‘site’ directories

4. Current status of DS Servers 1 Master directory server located in Plano 20 Consumer/Users servers with locations worldwide 78,000 people entries in the directory Data sources - Employees, contractors, mainframe legacy mail system, others Main users - SMTP mail infrastructure, phone number lookup.

5. DS input feed processing Odsdump dbm database HR data XID data MSG data SSi Data Andersen Data db.ready db.update Ldap updates adds modify delete Processing is done via Perl script that is scheduled with cron Files are made available for customer use via anonymous FTP

6. Sources of DS data Human Resources Security User

7. DS Usage

8. Suggestions for Deployment Make it easy for them to get to the directory Use ‘standard’ attribute names for commonly used attributes Provide programming help/examples Keep data current Get a ‘killer application’ –email –company photos –phone book

9. What’s left to do Metadirectory Continue web interface enhancements Continue DSA fanout Reduce use of output DS feed files Help users develop their applications

10. Questions? Jim May jmay@ti.com