Chapter 3. Configuring Directory Databases

3.1. Creating and Maintaining Suffixes

3.1.1. Creating Suffixes
3.1.2. Maintaining Suffixes

3.2. Creating and Maintaining Databases

3.2.1. Creating Databases
3.2.2. Maintaining Directory Databases
3.2.3. Database Encryption

3.3. Creating and Maintaining Database Links

3.3.1. Configuring the Chaining Policy
3.3.2. Creating a New Database Link
3.3.3. Chaining Using SSL
3.3.4. Maintaining Database Links
3.3.5. Database Links and Access Control Evaluation
3.3.6. Advanced Feature: Tuning Database Link Performance
3.3.7. Advanced Feature: Configuring Cascading Chaining

3.4. Using Referrals

3.4.1. Starting the Server in Referral Mode
3.4.2. Setting Default Referrals
3.4.3. Creating Smart Referrals
3.4.4. Creating Suffix Referrals

The directory is made up of databases, and the directory tree is distributed across the databases. This chapter describes how to create suffixes, the branch points for the directory tree, and how to create the databases associated with each suffix. This chapter also describes how to create database links to reference databases on remote servers and how to use referrals to point clients to external sources of directory data.

^[2] The LDAP tools referenced in this guide are Mozilla LDAP, installed with Directory Server in the /usr/lib/mozldap directory on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 i386; directories for other platforms are listed in Section 1.2, “LDAP Tool Locations”. However, Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems also include LDAP tools from OpenLDAP. It is possible to use the OpenLDAP commands as shown in the examples, but you must use the -x argument to disable SASL and allow simple authentication.

^[3] The command to restart the Directory Server on platforms other than Red Hat Enterprise Linux is described in Section 1.3, “Starting and Stopping Servers”.