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Secure Identity Management Overview Course
March 2003
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Nsure UDDI Server

UDDI is short for Universal Description, Discovery and Integration. It can be looked at as a Web-based distributed directory that enables business to list themselves on the Internet and discover each other, similar to a traditional phone book's yellow and white pages.

Novell offers a Nsure UDDI Server. With market leading Novell eDirectory as a foundation, Novell Nsure UDDI Server adds secure identity management capability to the UDDI standard, increasing security and manageability of Web services registries.

Some of the features of the Novell UDDI Server are:

  • Centralized administration/management of UDDI registry data

  • Exploits eDirectory Replication to offer a distributed service with high availability

  • UDDI user accounts administered via eDirectory account management solutions

  • Supports basic user-id, password authentication

  • Secure authentication over SSL can be configured/enforced

  • eDirectory ACL based access control

The following are some of the things you can do with the UDDI Server:

  • Publish and locate internal business applications in a secure, private environment

  • Integrate enterprise web portals with exteNd Director

  • Use eDirectory as a basis for authentication and access control of Web Services

The UDDI Server has versions that will run on NetWare, Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, and Command Beans.

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