HP-UX Directory Server 8.1 console guide

Table of Contents
1 Overview of the console................................................................................................5
1.1 How the Console, Directory Server, and Administration Server work together..............................5
1.2 Console menus..................................................................................................................................7
1.3 Console tabs......................................................................................................................................8
1.3.1 The Servers and Applications tab.............................................................................................8
1.3.2 The Users and Groups tab.........................................................................................................9
1.4 Server-specific consoles...................................................................................................................10
1.4.1 The Directory Server Console.................................................................................................10
1.4.2 The Administration Server console.........................................................................................11
2 Basic Console tasks.....................................................................................................13
2.1 Launching the Console....................................................................................................................13
2.2 Opening a directory or Administration Server window.................................................................14
2.3 Changing the Console appearance..................................................................................................14
2.3.1 Changing profile locations......................................................................................................15
2.3.2 Restoring default font settings................................................................................................16
2.3.3 Changing console fonts...........................................................................................................17
2.3.4 Reordering table columns.......................................................................................................19
2.3.5 Customizing the main window...............................................................................................22
2.3.6 Working with custom views...................................................................................................23
2.3.6.1 Creating custom views....................................................................................................23
2.3.6.2 Switching to a custom view............................................................................................25
2.3.6.3 Setting access permissions for a public view..................................................................25
3 Managing server instances.........................................................................................29
3.1 Editing domain, host, server group, and instance information......................................................29
3.2 Creating and removing admin domains.........................................................................................30
3.2.1 Creating and editing an admin domain..................................................................................30
3.2.2 Removing an admin domain...................................................................................................31
3.3 Creating a new Directory Server instance.......................................................................................32
3.4 Deleting a Directory Server instance...............................................................................................33
4 Managing Directory Server users and groups..........................................................35
4.1 Searching for users and groups.......................................................................................................35
4.2 Creating directory entries................................................................................................................37
4.2.1 Directory and administrative users.........................................................................................37
4.2.2 Groups.....................................................................................................................................40
4.2.3 Organizational units................................................................................................................43
4.3 Modifying directory entries............................................................................................................45
4.3.1 Editing entries.........................................................................................................................45
4.3.2 Allowing sync attributes for entries........................................................................................46
4.3.3 Changing administrator entries..............................................................................................47
4.3.3.1 Changing the configuration administrator and password.............................................48
4.3.3.2 Changing the admin password.......................................................................................49
4.3.3.3 Adding users to the configuration administrators group...............................................50
4.3.4 Removing an entry from the directory...................................................................................52
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