Hi David,
>> Speaking of logs, I'm going through right now setting up Gluu in a test environment for evaluation and I cannot get SMTP messaging to work (we use O365 for email). Are there logs for that? When I test the connection setup, all I get is an error message that says "failed to connect to SMTP server" with no details.
oxtrust.log
>> Also, is there any documentation anywhere that explains why Gluu uses its own internal LDAP server and copies data from an external source (AD or another LDAP instance)? What is the advantage of this instead of just connecting to the external source and reading the info it needs? If I am to 'sell' this system to management, I'm going to have to explain why we are needlessly (in their eyes) duplicating our current identity databases.
Good question..
Our target is to make Gluu Server as simple as possible for new users/deployers, that's why we tried to keep everything under one shell as someone can start using Gluu Server right away.
In our customer base there are organizations who are using:
- 'Cache Refresh' or SCIM: To pull/push user's information from their own AD/LDAP server or their existing IDM system.
- Organization who are using their own remote LDAP server to store everything.. not only user's information but also Gluu server's configuration.
- Organization who are using their Gluu Server's LDAP as their user's primary datastore.
As you can see there are variety of customers out there.
Another note... other than User's information, we store configurations, temp tokens and sessions inside LDAP as well; so LDAP is important for us ( However, from next version.. 3.1.0 we are going to use memcached + redis to store sessions ).