Ability to use the install.inf
file to determine current parameter values.
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The term nshome refers
to the directory or folder where the actual Directory Server files reside.
Although you can set nshome to be anything you want, in this
course we'll always use the default location:
Unix: /usr/netscape/server4/
NT: C:\netscape\server4\
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The term serverid
refers to the name assigned to your Directory Server during installation.The
default is slapd-hostname, where hostname is the name of the target system.
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Try This:
Locate the install.inf file
on your system and record the current value of the "UseReplication" parameter. |
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Configuration Overview
The term "configuration tasks" refers to administrative activities
that are usually performed right after installation and only occasionally
thereafter. In contrast, "management tasks" are activities
that are performed routinely, such as reading log files and backing up
the directory. Those activities are covered in the Management
module.
Configuration During Installation
Your Directory Server was configured to some minimum degree
during the installation process. All runtime activities are
controlled by configuration parameters, and you've already specified the
most important ones when you ran the setup program.
Configuration parameters set during installation include the following:
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root DN
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server root
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network service port number
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administrator's login and password
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administrative port number
Your Directory Server was up and running as soon as you completed the installation
process, but there're still some parameters that you might want to modify.
Important configuration parameters not set during installation
include:
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maximum cache size
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index specification
Reading The install.inf File
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The install.inf file is a text file which contains a list
of configuration parameters that were set during installation. On
NT and Unix systems, its default location is: nshome\serverId\setup |
If you saved the install.inf file during the installation process,
you can now refer to it as a way of determining the minimum configuration
parameter values for your Directory Server.
You can examine the contents of this file by using Notepad on NT systems
or TextEdit on Solaris systems.
If you didn't save the install.inf file, you can click on the
icon above to see an example.
Configuration With Netscape Console
You can change most of the Directory Server's parameter values
from the various forms provided in Netscape Console.
This is the quickest and easiest way to configure your Directory Server.
We'll describe this process in the next section.
Manual Configuration
In addition to the graphical interface, it is possible to use
command line tools to configure the Directory Server.
We'll briefly describe the process of editing the Directory Server's
configuration files later in this module.
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