Installation guide

Using Silent Installation
Chapter 4 Silent Installation and Instance Creation 69
You will have to make some modifications to this file before you use it. Specifically,
ensure that you have done the following:
•
FullMachineName—Set this directive to a value that is appropriate for the
machine on which Directory Server will be installed, if it’s not to be the local
machine. In most circumstances, it is best not to use this directive because
FullMachineName will then default to the local host name. However, if you use
custom installation to generate your initial server instance, then this directive
will appear in the
install.inf file.
•
ServerIpAddress—Set this directive appropriate for the local machine. The
same usage rules apply for
ServerIpAddress as for FullMachineName.
Specifically, try to not include
ServerIpAddress in your install.inf file
unless you absolutely have to (as may be necessary for multi-homed systems).
•
ServerRoot—Verify the installation path on this directive. If you are installing
on both Windows and UNIX machines, make sure the appropriate path
delimiter is used. Add or remove the Windows drive letter designation as is
appropriate for the host you are installing on. Also, the name of the file-system
directory where you install files must not contain any space characters.
•
ServerIdentifier—If you are installing more than one Directory Server on
the same host, make sure that this directive contains a unique value for each
server instance.
•
SuiteSpotUserID and SuiteSpotGroup—If you create your install.inf file
on a Windows machine, then the
SuiteSpotUserID and SuiteSpotGroup
directives are both set to
nobody. If you subsequently use this file on a UNIX
machine, ensure the user and group specified by these directives are
appropriate for the machine. The
SuiteSpotUserID and SuiteSpotGroup
directives determine what user and group a server will run under when
installed on a UNIX system.
The sections that follow provide examples of using silent installation to support the
following installation scenarios:
• Sample File for Typical Installation
• Sample File for Using an Existing Configuration Directory
• Sample File for Installing the Standalone Netscape Console
NOTE Be sure to protect your
install.inf files because they contain
passwords in clear. Also ensure that any DNs in these files are in the
UTF-8 character set encoding.