Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 Administrator's Guide

The server adds the attribute to the Additional Indexes table.

6. Select the checkbox for each type of index to maintain for each attribute.

To create an index for a language other than English, enter the OID of the collation order to

use in the Matching Rules field.

To index the attribute using multiple languages, list multiple OIDs separated by commas, but

no whitespace. For a list of languages, their associated OIDs, and further information

regarding collation orders, see Appendix D, Internationalization.

8. Click Save.

9. The Indexes dialog box appears, displaying the status of the index creation and informing

you when the indexes have been created. Click the Status Logs box to view the status of the

indexes created. Once the indexing is complete, click Close.

The new index is immediately active for any new data that you add and any existing data in your

directory. You do not have to restart your server.

2.2. Creating Indexes from the Command-Line

Creating presence, equality, approximate, substring, and international indexes for specific

attributes from the command-line involves two steps:

1. Using the ldapmodify command-line utility to add a new index entry or edit an existing index

entry. See Section 2.2.1, “Adding an Index Entry”.

2. Running the db2index.pl Perl script to generate the new set of indexes to be maintained by

the server. See Section 2.2.2, “Running the db2index.pl Script”.

NOTE

You cannot create new system indexes because system indexes are hard-coded

in Directory Server.

2.2.1. Adding an Index Entry

Use ldapmodify

to add the new index attributes to your directory.

• To create a new index that will become one of the default indexes, add the new index

attributes to the cn=default indexes,cn=config,cn=ldbm database,

Creating Indexes from the Command-Line

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