Installation guide

Setting up Red Hat Directory Server
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Installing and configuring Red Hat Directory Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux has three
major steps:
1. Install the required version of the Java® Runtime Environment (JRE).
2. Install the Directory Server packages.
3. Run the setup-ds-admin.pl script. This is where all of the information about the new
Directory Server instance is supplied.
WARNING
If Directory Server is already installed on your machine, it is extremely important
that you perform a migration, not a fresh installation. Migration is described in
Chapter 8, Migrating from Previous Versions.
NOTE
Before beginning the installation process, make sure that your system meets the
requirements in Section 2.2, “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5”.
NOTE
Red Hat Directory Server is also supported running on a virtual guest on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux Virtualization Server 5.
There are three interactive ways of setting up Directory Server: express, typical, and custom.
These setup types provide different levels of control over the configuration settings, such as port
numbers, directory suffixes, and users and groups for the Directory Server processes. Express
has the least amount of input, meaning it uses more default or randomly-generated settings,
while custom allows the most control over the configuration by having the user supply a lot of
configuration information. These setup types are described more in Table 1.2, “Comparison of
Setup Types”. For most deployments, the typical installation type is recommended.
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