Installation guide

Installation Process Overview
18 Netscape Directory Server Installation Guide • May 2002
Determining the Administration Domain
The administration domain allows you to logically group Netscape servers
together so that you can more easily distribute server administrative tasks. A
common scenario is for two divisions in a company to each want control of their
individual Netscape servers. However, y ou may still wa nt some centralized
control of all the servers in your enterprise. Administration domains allow you to
meet these conflicting goals.
Administration domains have the following qualities:
• All servers share the same configuration directory, regardless of the domain
they belong to.
• Servers in two different domains may use two di fferent us er directories for
authentication and user management.
• The configuration directory administrator has complete access to all installed
Netscape servers, regardless of the domain that they belong to.
• Each administration domain can be configured with an administration domain
owner. This owner has complete access to all the servers in the domain but
does not have access to the servers in any other administration domain.
• The administration domain owner can grant individual users administrative
access on a server by server basis within the domain.
For many installations, you can have just one administration domain. In this case,
choose a name that is representative of your organization. For other installations,
you may want different domains because of the demands at your site. In the latter
case, try to name your administration domains after the organizations that will
control the servers in that domain.
For example, if you are an ISP and you have three customers for whom you are
installing and managing Netscape servers, create three administration domains
each named after a different customer.
Installation Process Overview
You c an use one of several installation processes to install Directory Server. Each
one guides you through the installation process and ensures that you install the
various components in the correct order.