NIS+ to LDAP Migration Guide

Overview of NIS+ to LDAP Migration
Migration Overview
Chapter 12
Migration Overview
One of the features of LDAP-UX Integration product 4.0 delivers
functionality that provides a replacement for NIS+ by using the
LDAP-UX Integration product in place of the features provided by NIS+.
This evolution means that the NIS+ Client and Server products will no
longer be released as part of the HP-UX 11i v3 release. The LDAP-UX
Integration product is the recommended replacement for NIS+. In order
to plan for NIS+ obsolescence, if you are running NIS+, you will need to
migrate your NIS+ environment to LDAP-UX Integration.
The migration to LDAP-UX Integration includes converting the NIS+
server to an LDAP directory server, migrating the NIS+ tables to the
LDAP directory and installing the LDAP-UX Client Services on all NIS+
clients.
HP is providing the LDAP-UX Integration product version B.04.00
including the migration package on HP-UX 11i v3. This migration
package runs on HP-UX 11i v1 and v2 systems via the web release on
June, 2005. You can plan and perform the migration at your earliest
convenience and do not need to wait until updating to HP-UX 11i v3 to
perform the migration.
Before you update the NIS+ server system to HP-UX 11i v3 or at the
time of the update, you need to install and configure an LDAP directory,
then migrate the NIS+ server data to the LDAP directory server. At the
time of the migration, if you desire load balancing, you can turn off the
NIS+ replica servers and reconfigure them to become LDAP replica
servers. After the NIS+ servers are migrated to the LDAP directory
server, you need to install and configure LDAP-UX Client Services
B.04.00 on all NIS+ client systems.
This migration guide documents the migration procedures you take to
migrate the NIS+ server to the LDAP directory server and to install the
LDAP-UX Client Services on all NIS+ clients.
NIS+ client software will not be supported or provided on HP-UX 11i v3.
If updating a system running the NIS+ client to HP-UX 11i v3 from an
earlier operating system version, you must reconfigure the
/etc/nsswitch.conf file to use another service for name resolution at
the time the system is updated to HP-UX 11i v3. Name resolution
services include ldap, nis, dns and files.