Installation guide

Corrections to Documentation

Error in perfdump Description

In the Performance, Tuning, Sizing, and Scaling Guide and in the “Tuning Your Server for

Performance” section of the Administrator’s Guide, the instructions for enabling perfdump are

incorrect. They say to add the following object to your

obj.conf file after the default object:

Service fn = "service-dump"

</Object>

However, the line Service fn = "service-dump" is incorrect. There shouldn't be any spaces

around the equals sign. The correct example is:

Service fn="service-dump"

</Object>

Obsolete Security Directives in magnus.conf

In Appendix B of the NSAPI Programmer’s Guide, the ServerCert and ServerKey directives are

listed, but they are obsolete in iPlanet Web Server 4.x.

Undocumented Security Directive in magnus.conf: CERTDefaultNickname

Appendix B of the NSAPI Programmer’s Guide, omitted the CERTDefaultNickname directive. Here is

the description:

The

CERTDefaultNickname directive is the nickname of the server certificate in the certificate

database.

Syntax

CERTDefaultNickname name

The name is the nickname of the server certificate in the certificate database.

Default

There is no default. You must specify a name.

Problem 465149. Error in Server Restart Description

In the “Configuring Server Preferences” chapter of the Administrator’s Guide, in the section called

“Restarting the Server Manually (Unix/Linux),” it says that you can use the

-p option. This option

is no longer valid.

In addition, you must use the

-start option, and it must be the first option. The syntax should read

as follows:

server_root/https-server_id/start -start [-option1 -option2 ... ]

In the manuals, the server instance directory is sometimes called https-server_id and sometimes

called type

-identifier. Both of these mean the same thing.