<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Ou=Hosts usage</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Dear All, Has anyone implemented ou=Hosts in their ldap infrastructure? I am planning to implement this for inventory tracking. Here is a sample attributes I am planning to add to it. dn: cn=ldap.example.com,ou=Host,dc=example,dc=com hostName: ldap.example.com hostClass: UtilityServers hostStatus: live hostPriority: High hostSerial: KH9890HLXC macAddress: 00:09:89:67:L7:8S ipAddress: 192.168.10.28 IpAddress: 192.168.10.29 ipSubnet: 255.255.0.0 description: Corporate LDAP server team: unixAdminTeam contactPerson: Prashanth What I am trying to do: I want to keep this DB up-to-date and show these items on INTRANET page. I am looking for other use case scenarios for implementing this. Anyone has any suggestions/opinions for this? Related Info about OU=Hosts I read in LDAP System Administration book(by Gerald Carter) about being able to resolve hosts using LDAP i.e refer LDAP as backend DB for DNS(bind 9 only). He talks about ‘Zone2ldap’ to convert the DNS zone file to a format like this RelativeDomainName=<hostname>,dc=example,dc=com </BODY> </HTML>