Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 Administrator's Guide

2. Under Data in the left navigation pane, click the suffix to disable.
3. Click the Suffix Setting tab, and deselect the Enable this suffix checkbox.
4. Click Save.
The suffix is no longer enabled.
1.2.4. Deleting a Suffix
CAUTION
Deleting a suffix also deletes all database entries and replication information
associated with that suffix.
1. In the Directory Server Console, select the Configuration tab.
2. Under Data in the left navigation pane, select the suffix to delete.
3. Select Delete from the Object menu.
Alternatively, right-click the suffix and select Delete from the pop-up menu.
4. Select Delete this suffix and all of its sub suffixes to remove all the suffix and every suffix
below it.
Select Delete this suffix only to remove only this particular suffix, not its sub suffixes.
5. Click OK.
2. Creating and Maintaining Databases
After creating suffixes to organizing the directory data, create databases to contain that
directory data. Databases are used to store directory data.
2.1. Creating Databases
The directory tree can be distributed over multiple Directory Server databases. There are two
ways to distribute data across multiple databases:
• One database per suffix. The data for each suffix is contained in a separate database.
Chapter 3. Configuring Directory Databases
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