Defence white & yellow pages and as repository for defence role based access control
The Australian Department of Defence had a challenge: how to keep track of its people and how to use its central identity management infrastructure as a basis for online services. Historically, internal divisions had 'gone their own way', and developed a wide variety of corporate directories.
These were constantly in need of update, wouldn't 'talk to each other', and offered very poor performance, which discouraged their use. Defence Headquarters took steps to overcome the problem by acquiring a single, easy to maintain corporate directory, capable of integrating with a diverse collection of legacy and new systems, able to be accessed via the Web as well as from Microsoft desktop platforms and mobile devices and offering significant performance improvement in a cost-effective manner.
eB2Bcom's View500 was selected since it was a highly compliant implementation of the ISO OSI Directory Standard, and offering both DAP and LDAP interfaces as well as full support for the new IETF XML enabled Directory standard as well as SOAP, LDIF, XLDIF and a variety of other standards. eB2Bcom View500 easily interfaced to the Defence Department's wide variety of disparate legacy systems, which included email, a proprietary HR system, other more standard HR systems and a telephone database as well as a variety of systems on both the Australian Defence Secret and restricted networks . Existing legacy systems remain and are dynamically linked to eB2Bcom View500, allowing either for periodic update or live linkage (i.e. when a change is made in eB2Bcom View500, it is reflected in the legacy system, or visa versa depending upon the specified relationship).
The new Australian Department of Defence Identity Management infrastructure Directory is accessed through a specially configured eB2Bcom View500 Web Directory User Agent (DUA), offering simple but powerful search capabilities, including phonetic and intelligent sub-string matching. Users can search for a particular person, or browse through the entire directory. The system administrator, using either a Web based or Windows DUA, performs administration. This allows full maintenance of all data records, the ability to move entire branches by a simple drag and drop operation, system backup and report generation (including production of a paper based directory when required). An SNMP interface links eB2Bcom View500 to the Department's on-line systems monitor, providing real-time systems performance monitoring.
Australian Defence with its requirements for mission critical performance has multiple View500 licences and requires 24x7x365 operation with 99.99% availability.
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