SRM possible with external catalogs only?

Hi,
We are thinking about implementing SRM 5.0 or SRM 6.0. Decision has not been made yet, but one item on the wishlist would be to use external catalogs only (not CCM or MDM). Is this possible and could we then completely skip the CCM/Trex or MDM installations or would they still be needed, but just remain unused?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Sander.

Hi,
You can of course connect any OCi compliant external catalog.
You don't need CCM or MDM for this !
Kind regards,
Yann

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>Michael,
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>> [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> > Is this even possible?
>> >
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>> > be synced with the eDirectory data, but have the eDirectory receive updates
>> > from the RADIUS (or LDAP, Kerberos or whatever system is necessary). Or is
>> > an all-Novell solution the only possible way to use RADIUS authentication?
>>
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>>
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>>
>> --
>> Jim
>> NSC SYsop

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