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directory, and for larger sites, this write activity can create performance issues for other directory service

activities. T he configuration directory can be replicated to increase availability and reliability.

If the configuration directory tree gets corrupted, you may have to re-register or re-configure all Directory

Server instances. To prevent that, always back up the configuration directory after setting up a new

instance; never change a hostname or port number while active in the configuration directory; and do not

modify the configuration directory tree; only the setup program can directly modify a configuration.

1.2.11. Administration Domain

The administration domain allows servers to be grouped together logically when splitting administrative

tasks. T hat level of organization is beneficial, for example, when different divisions within an organization

want individual control of their servers while system administrators require centralized control of all

servers.

When setting up the administration domain, consider the following:

Each administration domain must have an administration domain owner with complete access to all

the domain servers but no access to the servers in other administration domains. T he administration

domain owner may grant individual users administrative access on a server-by-server basis within

the domain.

All servers must share the same configuration directory. The Configuration Directory Administrator

has complete access to all installed Directory Servers, regardless of the domain.

Servers on two different domains can use different user directories for authentication and user

management.

1.3. About the setup-ds-admin.pl Script

The Directory Server and Admin Server instances are created and configured through a script call

setup-ds-admin.pl. T he Directory Server alone can be created using the setup-ds.pl script.

If simply the setup script is run, then the script launches an interactive installer which prompts for

configuration settings for the Directory Server and Admin Server instances. For example:

setup-ds-adm in.pl

The setup-ds-adm in.pl script can also accept a setup file or have arguments passed with the

command to supply configuration information automatically.

setup-ds-adm in.pl -s -f /export/files/install.inf

setup-ds-adm in.pl General.FullMachineName=ldap.example.com

Some options, such as s (silent) and f (file) allow you to supply values for the setup program through a

file. T he .inf file (described in more detail in Section 4.5, “Silent Setup”) has three sections for each of

the major components of Directory Server: General (host server), slapd (LDAP server), and adm in

(Admin Server).

The same parameters specified in the .inf can be passed directly in the command line. Command-line

arguments with setup-ds-admin.pl specify the .inf setup file section (General, slapd, or

adm in), parameter, and value in the following form:

section.parameter=value

For example, to set the machine name, suffix, and Directory Server port of the new instance, the

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