NetIQ eDirectory

eDirectory is a hierarchical, object oriented database used to represent certain assets in an organization in a logical tree, including organizations, organizational units, people, positions, servers, volumes, workstations, applications, printers, services, and groups to name just a few.

eDirectory uses dynamic rights inheritance, which allows both global and specific access controls.

The software supports referential integrity, multi-master replication, and has a modular authentication architecture.

Versions of eDirectory prior to version 8 (then called Novell Directory Services) used a record-based database management engine called Recman, which relied on the Transaction Tracking System built into the NetWare operating system.

FLAIM is an open source embeddable database engine developed by Novell and released under the GPL license in 2006.

NetWare eDirectory CWorthy Management Tool
Novell stores a large amount of network and server configuration data within eDirectory. In this example, the server name is "ADMIN1". Shown is an organizational unit, user groups, print queues, disk volumes, the server itself, print servers, Novell licensing, user template, secure authentication service, encryption key pairs, service location protocol, LDAP server, DNS configuration, DHCP configuration, Bordermanager server config, Novell installation service, SNMP config