NetIQ eDirectory

Summary

eDirectory is an X.500-compatible directory service from NetIQ, a subsidiary of OpenText. First released by Novell in 1993 with NetWare 4, it replaced the per-server bindery mechanism of earlier NetWare versions with a network-wide, hierarchical, LDAP-accessible directory. eDirectory represents organizational assets—users, groups, servers, printers, applications, and services—in a logical tree structure and supports multi-master replication, dynamic rights inheritance, and partitioning across multiple servers.