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I would like information on how I would configure Oid to use an external program, Python is currently being used, to retrieve data that is not in an Oracle database.
Thanks in advance.
Mike Payne
[email protected]

Hello Mike:
Usually this question is asked the other way "How do I configure my external programs to talk to my LDAP servers." In this case you would write your programs to talk LDAP. This is what we refer to as LDAP enabled. Thats why so many people want to use LDAP because they only need to write their programs to one universal protocol, LDAP.
But more and more people are wanting the "Moutain to come to Moses." They want LDAP to conform to their 3rd party programs. This is possible through something called a Meta Directory. Meta Directories are products that synchronize other non LDAP products with LDAP servers. Oracle doesn't make any of these Meta Directory connectors but our archietecture supports many commonly used Meta Directory products on the market including but certainly not limitted to Seimans, Access360, and Critical Path, just to name a few.
You would buy a Meta Directory from one of these companies I mentioned and then configure it with OiD. The connectors they sell are very specific to the application you want to synchronize with. There is not a one size fits all connector that I am aware of.
For instance, if you buy a connector to synchronize your Seimans phone system with your OiD LDAP server, it will not also synchronize with your HP servers unless you also purchased that connector as well.
Hope this helps,
Jay
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