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Configuration Decisions
18 Netscape Directory Server Installation Guide • October 2004
Between your user directory and your configuration directory, it is your user
directory that will receive the overwhelming percentage of the directory traffic.
For this reason, you should give the user directory the greatest computing
resources. Because the configuration directory should receive very little traffic, it
can be installed on a machine with very low-end resources (such as a
minimally-equipped Pentium).
Also, you should use the default directory ports (
389 and 636) for the user
directory. If your configuration directory is managed by a server instance
dedicated to that purpose, you should use some non-standard port for the
configuration directory.
You cannot install a user directory until you have installed a configuration
directory somewhere on your network.
Determining the Administration Domain
The administration domain allows you to group Netscape servers together
logically 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, you may still want 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
to which they belong.
• Servers in two different domains may use two different user directories for
authentication and user management.
• The configuration directory administrator has complete access to all installed
Netscape servers, regardless of the domain to which they belong.
• 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.
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