Cisco Systems 1.4 Manual De Usuario

LDIF is a standard format used to import and export data from an LDAP directory. You can set up 
Personal Assistant to read from an LDIF file to obtain information from the corporate directory when 
the system refreshes and when it restarts. By default, Personal Assistant uses an LDAP query, which can 
result in a large amount of network traffic, depending on the size of the data and the complexity of the 
system. Instead of having each server in a multiple Personal Assistant cluster run a large, 
resource-intensive LDAP query, you can set up an LDIF file at a shared location and configure each 
server to read from it.

Note that Personal Assistant will still use LDAP queries for functions such as name-dialing, searching 
the corporate directory to copy users to the address book, and so on.

To use an LDIF file, you first set up the system to generate the LDIF file that includes attributes specific 
to Personal Assistant. When you later configure the corporate directory, you specify the location of this 
file. The 

 will alert you when to do this.

 lists the Personal Assistant attributes required in the LDIF file. Note that in addition to the 

listed fields, if you configured directory hierarchies that use other attributes (for example, City=San 
Jose), you must include the additional attributes in the file. See the 

 section 

below for an example of how to set up an LDIF file for Personal Assistant.

mobile

Cell Phone

homeNumber

Home Phone

pager

Pager Address

mail 

E-mail Address

cn, uid, or sAMAccountName

Unique Attribute

givenName

First Name

sn

Last Name

alias

Nick Name

telephoneNumber

Work Phone

mobile

Cell Phone

homeNumber

Home Phone

pager

Pager Address

mail 

E-mail Address