Installation guide

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 5.2, “Installing the

Directory Server Packages”, then launch the setup-ds-adm in.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 T CP/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. T his

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

Computer name [ldap.exam ple.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.exam ple.com , that do not match the

/etc/resolv.conf settings, you cannot use the default hostname option.

The hostname is very important. It is used generate the Directory Server instance name, the

admin domain, and the base suffix, among others. If you are using SSL/T LS or Kerberos, the

computer name must be the exact name that clients use to connect to the system. If you will use

DNS, make sure the name resolves to a valid IP address and that IP address resolves back to this

name.

6. Set the user and group as which the Directory Server process will run. The default is

nobody:nobody. For example:

System User [nobody]:

System Group [nobody]:

7. The next step allows you to register your Directory Server with an existing Directory Server

instance, called the Configuration Directory Server. T his registers the new instance so it can be

managed by the Console. If this is the first Directory Server instance set up on your network, it is

Chapter 5. Setting up Red Hat D irectory Server on Sun Solaris