At the moment we are integrating LDAP in our environment.
Compared to Windows this process is much complicated and time consuming.
With Windows you had Active Directory and if you create a new server, you just add it to the domain and your finished.
Yes, I know Unix is not Windows.
Are there any (commercial) solutions to ease the administration of ldap ?
LDAP is just a database, so you can manipulate it as such with the ldap-jdbc bridge and SQuirreL or other JDBC tools like xigole jisql command line SQL:
OpenLDAP, JDBC-LDAP Bridge Driver
SQuirreL SQL Client Home Page
http://www.xigole.com/software/jisql.jsp