LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.15 with Microsoft Windows Active Directory Server Administrator's Guide (edition 8)

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nsquery(1) is a contributed tool included with the ONC/NFS product.
2 These commands enumerate the entire passwd or group database, which may reduce network and directory server
performance for large databases.
After you install and configure the Active Directory and migrate your name service data into it,
HP-UX client systems locate the directory from a start-up file. The start-up file tells the client
system how to download a configuration profile from the Active Directory.
The configuration profile is a directory entry containing configuration information common to
many clients. Storing this information in the directory lets you maintain it in one place and share
it among many clients rather than storing it redundantly across the clients. Because the
configuration information is stored in the directory, all each client needs to know is where its
profile is. Each client downloads the configuration profile from the directory.
The profile is an entry in the directory containing details on how clients will access the directory.
These details might include where and how clients should search the directory for user, group,
and other name service information, or other configuration parameters such as search time limits.
Figure 1-4 The Local Start-up File and the Configuration Profile
Active Directory
LDAP-UX client
Configuration
profile
Configuration
profile
The shared configuration
profile is stored in the
directory and downloaded
to all LDAP-UX clients.
The start-up file points
to the configuration
profile in the directory.
Start-up
file
22 Introduction