Installation guide

3.3. Typical Setup

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

the Directory and Admin 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 5, Migrating from Previous

Versions.

1. After the Directory Server packages are installed as described in Section 3.1, “Installing the

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

# /usr/sbin/setup-ds-adm in.pl

This script allows parameters to be passed with it or to specify configuration files to use. The

options are described more in Section 1.3, “About the setup-ds-admin.pl Script”.

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. This

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

Computer name [ldap.example.com]:

The given hostname must be a fully-qualified domain name that can be resolved using

gethostname() and then can be reverse-resolved by IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) back to the

original hostname. If either name resolution attempt fails, then the setup script returns a warning

message and prompts you to continue.

Chapter 3. Setting up Red Hat D irectory Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux