Reading event log from windows Active directory
I am exploring Novell API , Is there any other API which will read the event log from windows AD. I am trying to sync the AD in my tables. when I do the first time sync it return the complete data from AD but when I do the sync and there is a single record updated in AD then I should be able to get the updated data and not the complete Directory.
I am reading topics from this news group, I am hoping I will get some help from old post. but yes if someone have bookmark for this it would be great.
-santosh
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smaskara] at [2007-11-26 17:09:27]
# 1
A couple of "syntactic corrections".
Usually when people refer to "Event Log" and "Windows" they are usually referring to the Windows Service that allows applications to publish, access, and process events such as System, Security and Application specifc events.
What you are really asking is how to detect changes to the Active Directory.
Have a look at the following posts:
JNDI, Active Directory & Persistent Searches (part 1)
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=578338&tstart=200
JNDI, Active Directory and Persistent Searches (part 2)
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=672007&tstart=90
PS. No idea why you are looking at the Novell API for information about Active Directory, I would have thought that Microsoft would be a better source for Active Directory information :-). I know Microsoft and Novell recently signed an agreement but you are really stretching the gist of that agreement to the extreme......
# 2
Hi Steven,
you are correct, I am looking for detecting changes to the Active Directory from my java application.
Thanks for the pointers, really useful information. Defiantly MS is the good source for LDAP. I started looking into links that you posted in above post.
I am trying the below user case :
First time do the fullsync and store the required objects into the local database. but from next time onwards I (Client appI need to get the notification from LDAP/AD saying there is a change in the LDAP/AD then my client will do the sync on only changed objects from AD/LDAP. Is there any way to get the notification from the LDAP/AD saying object has been changed and then my client will do the sync to update the my local database copy.
I am storing object in DB for my application needs.
Thanks,
Santosh Maskar
