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LEX - The LDAP Explorer Publisher's Description

Browse and manage LDAP directory systems

LEX - The LDAP Explorer is a GUI based administration tool running on windows platforms, which is able to browse and manage LDAP directory systems. For the LEX user, the look and feel while working with the directory structure is very similar to the windows file explorer. LEX isn't just another LDAP browser, in fact it's an full featured LDAP client for directory services adminstration.

LDAP browsing and object display

* Display of the container objects in a hierarchical tree view with the according possibilities to navigate. Once a container structure is copied into a local cache, the following LEX program launches are extremely fast.
* Object list display with any LDAP object attribute as a list column value.
* The complete attribute list of an object can be shown integrated in the main window (expandable as an horizontal or vertical window pane) or in an separate window.
* LEX can access several LDAP directories concurrently.
* All program windows which shows single objects or object lists (for example the results of search operations), are not modal.
* The display of all Distinguished Names in the program can be switched from the official LDAP notation to Novell dotted notation.
* Fast fold/unfold options in displaying multi valued attributes for an easy and efficient handling.

Server Support

LEX supports the following LDAPv2 / LDAPv3 directory systems:

* OpenLDAP
* Microsoft Active Directory Services
* Microsoft Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS / ADAM)
* Novell eDirectory
* Siemens DirX Directory Server
* Sun/NetScape iPlanet Directory Server
* Sun Java System Directory Server
* 389 Directory Server / Fedory Directory Server
* IBM Secureway LDAP
* Oracle Internet Directory
* IBM Tivoli Directory Server
* Exchange 5.5
* Any other LDAPv2 / LDAPv3 directory

Authentication

LEX comes with the following options according to the connection to an LDAP server (Bind-Operation):

* Anonymous BIND
* SASL authentication
* LDAP-SSL connections
* Logon with the current credentials
* Paged Result Handling
* LDAP BIND over TCP or UDP (Transmission Control Protocol / User Datagram Protocol)
* Connection Profiles: Logon configurations and their credentials can be easily stored in profiles. The profiles are stored in the filesystem with Rijndael encryption so that they are protected against disclosure.
* Server Detection: In Active Directory or Novell eDirectory environments, LEX can search automatically for available LDAP servers. If the LEX workstation is member of an Active Directory domains, all domain controllers in the entire forest will be detected, with global catalog configuration and site membership.
* Naming Contexts Fetch: The naming contexts which are published by the LDAP server can be automatically detected, the user doesn't have to enter LDAP base pathnames manually.

Schema Evaluation

LEX performs an evaluation of the LDAP schema for the mentioned server types. This happens whenever the tool connects to an LDAP server. Therefore LEX can display LDAP attributes which are not visible in simple LDAP requests (operational attributes). Object attributes which have a more complex syntax can be displayed and edited in customized dialogs (for example date and time values or access control lists).

Edit Functions

LEX can edit objects and attributes - with special editors which are customized for the regarding data type and attribute syntax. If you want to generally avoid unintentional write access to the directory, you can configure LEX to operate in a ReadOnly mode.

The following data types are editable with customized dialogs:

* Boolean
* Directory String / Unicode / IA5 / Printable
* Integer (decimal, hexadecimal, binary - even as bit field)
* Octet-String / Binary
* Bitmaps
* Distinguished Name (with comfortable resolution for short names into complete Distinguished Names)
* UTC Time / Generalized Time
* Password strings (with hash calculators for CRYPT, MD5. SHA, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, LM, NT)
* {Novell} Email Address
* {Novell} Path
* {Novell} Object ACL
* {Novell} Timestamp
* {Novell} Counter
* {Novell} Backlink
* {Novell} Typed Name
* {Microsoft} DN with Binary
* {Microsoft} DN with String
* {Microsoft} Large Integer / INT64
* {Microsoft} Interval / Timestamp
* {Microsoft} NT Security Descriptor
* {Microsoft} Security Identifier (SID)
* {Microsoft} BitFlag Attributes: dsHeuristics, groupType, sAMAccountType, searchFlags, systemFlags, userAccountControl

Subtree Rename and Move: LEX can move and rename whole directory subtrees, even if the regarding directory service does not support such operations on non-leaf objects. This is done by cloning the underlying container structure and move all the regarding leaf objects into the cloned subtree.

Multi-Object Edit: LEX enables the user to choose several different objects from the current object list and edit their attributes simultaneously. Attributes can be built up based on other existing attributes here. An example: You could set the display name of many users to the new value "surname, given name" in one single step. Or you can set the email address of al recipients to "givenName.surname@example.com" in one single step. You can also set or remove single bits on numeric attributes for multiple objects.

Attribute Copy and Paste: With LEX, you can set attributes of an object according to the values of another object - very easy with the copy and paste functions which are implemented for objects and their attributes. Group memberships could be copied this way - the user can choose whether such multi valued attributes shall be merged into the existing value list or if the existing list shall be replaced by the copied values. from the clipboard.

Objectclass extension: You can easily add new object classes to existing objects.

Edit Dialogs: All dialogs in which object attributes are displayed and edited are non-modal.

Export / Import

Export formats: LDIF, CSV, XML, XLS

Import formats: LDIF

Directory Search For Objects

LEX comes with different search operations:

* Direct search in the text of the currently displayed object list or attribute list
* Simple LDAP search for object names and important attributes
* Complex search with LDAP search filters
* Paged Results searches for large environments

LDAP Filter Factory

The Filter Factory enables the LEX user to built even complex LDAP with nested boolean structures with a comfortable graphical user interface. Filter can be saved and loaded easily.

Specific editors help building sinlge filter elements even for complex datatypes (like date and time values) or for bit fields/flags (for example filters which search for single bits in userAccountControl attributes in AD environments).

Attributes can be used for filter building with their current values directly from the object view with context menu options.

LEX comes with predefined important LDAP filters.

Filters which contain date and time values can be stored in a time-relative manner ("All users which didn't log on for the last six months").

All dialogs in which LDAP filters are displayed and edited are non-modal.

Pipe Factory

The Pipe Factory enables you to add your own scripts or applications as a kind of plug in into LEX. With a pipe specification, the pipe script/program can be launched from the context menu of any object. LEX passes the Distinguished Name (the LDAP path) of the regarding object as a parameter to the pipe.

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Limited functionality

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