Figure 1-5 The Servers and Applications tab

The top of the topology is the administration domain, a collection of host systems and servers that share the same user directory. The server which hosts Directory Server or Administration Server instances belongs to the administration domain; that is the host.

A server group consists of all Directory Servers that are managed by a common Administration Server. A number of server groups can exist within an administration domain.

1.3.2 The Users and Groups tab

The Users and Groups tab can search for user and group entries in any Directory Server administered by the Console. Any of the returned entries can be edited or deleted through this tab, assuming that the users has the proper access permissions. New entries can also be created through the Users and Groups tab.

1.3 Console tabs

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