Installation guide

The typical setup process is the most commonly-used setup process. It offers control over the

ports for the Directory and Administration Servers, the domain name, and directory suffix.

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.

1. After the Directory Server packages are installed as described in Section 2, “Installing the

Directory Server Packages”, then launch the setup-ds-admin.pl script.

# /usr/sbin/setup-ds-admin.pl

NOTE

Run the setup-ds-admin.pl script as root.

2. Select y to accept the Red Hat licensing terms.

3. The dsktune utility runs. Select y to continue with the setup.

dsktune checks the available disk space, processor type, physical memory, and other

system data and settings such as TCP/IP ports and file descriptor settings. If your system

does not meet these basic Red Hat Directory Server requirements, dsktune returns a

warning. dsktune warnings do not block the setup process; simply enter y to go to the next

step.

4. Next, choose the setup type. Accept the default, option 2, to perform a typical setup.

5. Set the computer name of the machine on which the Directory Server is being configured.

This defaults to the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) for the host. For example:

Computer name [ldap.example.com]:

NOTE

The setup program gets the host information from the /etc/resolv.conf file. If

there are aliases in the /etc/hosts file, such as ldap.example.com, that do not

Typical Setup