Installation guide

Setting up Red Hat Directory Server
on HP-UX 11i
Installing and configuring Red Hat Directory Server on HP-UX 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 program. The setup step 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 2.3, “HP-UX 11i”.
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 all that is required.
NOTE
There is a fourth setup option called a silent installation. This uses a file with
predefined settings to create a new Directory Server without any user interaction.
This is extremely useful for doing large numbers of Directory Server instances,
since it does not require any user involvement after the packages are installed.
Silent installations are explained more in Section 3.1, “Silent Setup for Directory
Chapter 4.
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