Architecture

Directory Sync runs on your server and updates the message security service to match your LDAP server. The directory sync utility never updates or changes your LDAP server.

The following steps describe how the data flow of directory sync works.

1. The directory sync utility connects to your LDAP server (via port 389 or another port you specify) and generates a list of users on your directory. You can set up rules to specify how this user list is generated.
2. The directory sync utility connects to the message security service (via port 8080 if you are using a proxy server, or otherwise port 443) and generates a list of registered users in the message security service. You can set up rules to specify how this user list is generated.
3. The directory sync utility compares the two lists, and generates a list of changes.
4. The directory sync utility then updates the message security service to match your LDAP server settings.

Utility Overview

The directory sync utility includes several components, designed to work together.  These components are:

• Configuration Manager - Use this graphical UI to configure how the directory sync utility will connect to the message security service and to your LDAP server. You can also create rules for user lists, search queries, organization mapping, aliases, distribution lists and exceptions.
• XML Configuration File - Save configuration information from Configuration Manager in an XML file. Use this file during synchronization.
• Synchronization Command Line - Use the command-line utility sync-cmd to perform actual synchronization. This utility uses settings in your XML configuration file to connect to the message security service and your LDAP server, and updates your users and aliases in the message security service.
• Scheduling - Once you have used sync-cmd successfully, use your operating system’s scheduling functionality to schedule future synchronization.  Depending on the server you use, this might be a cron job, a Windows Scheduled Service utility, or any other scheduling tool.

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