Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 Administrator's Guide

Figure 5.4. A Directory Tree with a Virtual DIT View hierarchy
Virtual DIT views behave like normal DITs in that a subtree or a one-level search can be
performed with the expected results being returned.
TIP
There is a sample LDIF file with example views entries, Example-views.ldif,
installed with Directory Server. This file is in the /usr/share/dirsrv/data
directory on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Solaris and the
/opt/dirsrv/share/data directory on HP-UX.
3.1. Creating Views in the Console
To create a view in the Directory Server Console, do the following:
1. Select the Directory tab.
2. In the left navigation tree, create a suffix to hold the views. For instance, for views based on
the locality (l) attribute, name this organizational unit Location Views.
3. Right-click ou=Location Views, and select New > Other.
4. Select nsview from the New Object menu, and hit OK.
5. In the Property Editor window, hit the Add Value button, and add the organization unit
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