Installation guide

Number of Entries Disk Space/Required Memory
Free disk space: 8 GB
Free memory: 1 GB
Table 2.1. Hardware Requirements
2. Operating System Requirements
Directory Server is supported on these operating systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5
(x86 and x86_64), HP-UX 11i (IA 64), and Sun Solaris 9 (sparc 64-bit). The specific operating
system requirements and kernel settings, patches, and libraries are listed for each.
• Section 2.1, “Using dsktune”
• Section 2.2, “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5”
• Section 2.3, “HP-UX 11i”
• Section 2.4, “Sun Solaris 9”
Along with meeting the required operating system patches and platforms, system settings, like
the number of file descriptors and TCP information, should be reconfigured to optimize the
Directory Server performance.
Directory Server includes a tool, dsktune, which simplifies configuring your system settings.
This section describes what settings to change on the machine on which Directory Server is
installed.
2.1. Using dsktune
After the packages for Directory Server are installed there is tool called dsktune which can scan
a system to check for required and installed patches, memory, system configuration, and other
settings required by Directory Server. The dsktune utility even returns information required for
tuning the host server's kernel parameters.
NOTE
The setup program also runs dsktune, reports the findings, and asks you if you
want to continue with the setup procedure every time a Directory Server instance
is configured.
Red Hat recommends running dsktune before beginning to set up the Directory Server
Chapter 2. System Requirements
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