Shanghai Mobile Unified Account Management Platform Based On Web Services Development

With the sharp development of Shanghai Mobile Company's Business System and the increasing large number of users, the network has expanded rapidly. While meeting business needs, the system brings many problems in account management. It has a large number of heterogeneous applications and hosts in the support system, which has established the independent account management and authentication System. With multiple increasing numbers of support system and accounts, the complexity of the account managed by the administrators has increased sharply. Decentralized authentication mode leads to account security risk and waste of system resources. According to the situation of Shanghai Mobile, therefore, researching centralized account management platform makes administrators to manager, authenticate and audit all kinds of IT system accounts, and to ensure the implementation of all system security policy by technique.First of all, the situation and existing problems of accounting management is Shanghai Mobile are discussed, so as to make the necessary of developing the Unified Management Platform based on Web Services clear. Based on it, the function requirement of the Unified Management Platform is discussed, and the processes such master account information management, user centralized authentication and log information query are analyzed. Then the architecture is analyzed and the core subsystems such account management, centralized authentication, centralized audit and building list database based LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) are designed in detail. Based on Web Services, it is discussed the integration between the account management platform and the support systems,which realizes information share.Finally, it is discussed the characteristics and effects of the platform.