Figure 1-4 Main Console menusTable 1-1 Console menus

Menu

Description

Console

Manages the Console session, such as closing the window or exiting the session entirely.

 

• For the main window, this menu also can be used to add and remove admin domain.

 

• For the Directory Server Console, this allows people to log in as a different user.

 

• For the Administration Server Console, it manages security issues, such as certificates and tokens.

 

 

Edit

Sets display preferences, for all three Consoles. For the Directory Server Console, this also provides

 

ways to copy, paste, and delete directory entries or text.

 

 

View

Sets whether to display certain parts of the Console window, such as the top banner, menus, and

 

side navigation panes. This also refreshes the current display. For the Directory Server Console, this

 

menu also sets what parts of the directory or which databases to view.

 

 

Object

Provides available operations for the active object; this is the same as the right-click menu for the

 

active area or entry.

 

• For the main window, this menu simply opens or deletes a server instance.

 

• For the Directory Server Console, this provides all the configuration options for the directory

 

entries, such as advanced property editors or creating new entries.

 

• For the Administration Server Console, this opens a configuration editor, starts, and stops the

 

server.

 

 

Help

Opens context-specific help for the current Console area.

 

 

1.3 Console tabs

There are two tabs in the main Console window:

•Servers and Applications, for managing the Directory Server and Administration Server instances

•Users and Groups, for searching for and creating user and group entries within the Directory Server

1.3.1The Servers and Applications tab

The Servers and Applications tab, by default, has a navigation tree on the left for viewing hosts and Directory and Administration Servers and a center information panel. To access the Directory Server instance, directory information, or Administration Server, open the server resource listed in the navigation tree. The information for the server instance, such as the build number and port number,

The navigation tree displays the HP-UX Directory Server topology, that is, a hierarchical representation of all the resources (such as servers and hosts), that are registered in a configuration directory.

8Overview of the console