Directory tree planning example

The following example represents some of the planning conventions used for implementing NDS in an organization with offices across a continent.

Assume that the ACME Corporation has offices in the following three cities within the United States:

• Sales and accounting offices located in the corporate headquarters in New York, New York.

• A development and test facility in Detroit, Michigan.

• Manufacturing sites in Los Angeles, California.

Physical Layout of a Medium-to-Large Directory Tree

The following figure shows the logical layout for an example Directory tree for ACME Corporation and some example names for leaf objects:

Example Logical Layout and Leaf Object Names

Notice that in this example all the usernames start with the initial of the first name, followed by the last name. Also notice that the names for LaserJet printers include an ``LJ'' and Apple printers include an ``APL''.

These are just examples of how naming standards can be used in the Directory tree. However you decide to name your objects, you should standardize naming throughout the Directory tree in order to exploit the Directory to its fullest.

See ``NDS objects and properties standards'' for ideas on how to standardize the naming of objects and properties in your Directory tree.