Overview of IBM Telephone Directory V5.2

Use IBM Telephone Directory V5.2 to search, view, and manage entries in an LDAP directory. The directory can be used as an address book with entries that contain personal information about people in your organization or, your business contacts. This directory can also be used to centrally define and control users and passwords for all of the Web applications and computer systems of your organization. The Directory Server Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is used to securely store your information, and the IBM Telephone Directory V5.2 application is used to view and manage your information. The application can use an existing directory if you already have one, or you can set up a new directory.

The IBM Telephone Directory v5.2 requires the IBM Tivoli Directory Server 6.1 (LDAP) which is provided with the Business Solution CD-ROM.

An overview of the application follows:

The workstation sends a browser request to the IBM HTTP Server. It then gets sent to the directory server via an HTTP server plugin. Another HTTP server plugin sends a request to the application server and IBM Telephone Directory.

The IBM Telephone Directory V5.2 application is installed on your server and can be deployed into the runtime of the following editions of WebSphere Application Server:

For detailed information on how the IBM Telephone Directory V5.2 application uses various server and software components, see the following topics: