An LDAP back end for SAT

• Student: Himanshu Shah 6/2000, now at CISCO Systems in San Jose, CA.
• Purpose: Replace the custom back-end database for SAT (System Administration Tools) with an industry-standard LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) database.
• Method: Organize the SAT relations into an appropriate LDAP structure and populate them. Modify the SAT routines (both C and Perl) that access and modify the data.
• What the student learned
  1. LDAP: organization of data, protocol for accessing data
  2. SAT: structure of the software
  3. Technical writing skills in preparing and packaging the resulting code.