LDAP-UX Client Services B.05.01 Administrator Guide for HP directory servers and Windows ADS

The customized installation (setup) is advantageous if:
You are more experienced and familiar with the product, and you want to manually customize
the software during the installation.
You are installing into an environment that already includes an LDAP directory server, and
user and group data has already been installed on that directory server. The guided installation
makes assumptions about the location of user, group, and host data that is stored in the
directory server. The customized installation enables you to define data location and customized
attribute mapping to specifically match the schema model defined in the existing directory
server.
You want to install the HP-UX host into multiple-domain Windows environment. Guided
installation supports installation into a single windows domain only.
You cannot modify the directory server’s schema. In this case, you can deploy using a local-only
profile. The local-only profile can also be useful for small deployments and testing purposes.
For more information, see Section 2.4.5.1 (page 69).
You require integration with HP-UX Trusted Mode. The autosetup script does not properly
configure LDAP-UX on a host using Trusted Mode.
2.3 Guided installation (autosetup) for an HP directory server environment
The guided installation greatly simplifies installation of LDAP-UX, and it gives you the option of
creating an HP-UX Directory Server instance. Setting up an HP-UX client with LDAP-based security
can be accomplished in a matter of moments. The information required for installation is kept to
an absolute minimum. For example, the only information required when installing and configuring
LDAP-UX into an existing directory server environment is the name of the directory server or the
name of the LDAP-UX domain being joined, and the credentials of a user who is permitted to either
create a new domain or join an existing one.
NOTE: The LDAP-UX domain is created by LDAP-UX 5.0 or later installations; it is the collection
of users, groups, and hosts that can be managed in the LDAP directory server, as defined by the
LDAP-UX configuration profile. For more information, see Section 2.3.2 (page 31).
When creating a new directory server, the guided installation can automatically discover the name
of the local host and generate the name of the new directory server instance based on the DNS
domain. While the guided installation (autosetup) is intended to be an interactive utility, you
can use command-line options to specify input required by the utility and, in some scenarios, make
it completely automated. The command-line options are described in detail in Section 2.3.3
(page 41).
While one of the strengths of LDAP-UX is its ability to integrate into any environment using a variety
of configuration options, the guided installation configures LDAP-UX with the most commonly-used
installation settings that support a trusted management framework. To assure that the associated
directory server is trusted in the security management space for HP-UX, the guided installation
requires that the directory server be enabled for SSL support. The guided installation can
automatically provision a new HP-UX Directory Server instance with SSL enabled, if one is needed.
The guided installation supports the following basic installation scenarios:
Installing LDAP-UX to create a new directory server (New Directory Server Installation mode):
In this scenario, the guided installation creates and provisions a new SSL-enabled instance of
an HP-UX Directory Server on the local host, and then configures LDAP-UX to connect to that
directory server. (It sets up the PAM configuration file /etc/pam.conf and the NSS
configuration file /etc/nsswitch.conf; samples of these files are included in “Samples
of LDAP-UX configuration files created or modified by autosetup” (page 410).) The guided
installation prompts for a directory server administration domain name, or if one already
exists, the host name and port number of the directory server that manages the existing server
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