HP UX Red Hat Direry Server Software manual Enabling Referrals Only During Update Operations

Maintaining Suffixes

to requests from client applications.

6. Click Save.

1.2.2. Enabling Referrals Only During Update Operations

It is possible to configure the directory to redirect update and write requests made by client applications to a read-only database. For example, there may be a local copy of directory data, and that data should be available company-wide for searches but not for updates. Enabling referrals for that Directory Server only for update requests means that when a client application asks to update an entry, the client is referred to the server that owns the data, where the modification request can proceed.

To enable referrals only during update operations, do the following:

1.In the Directory Server Console, select the Configuration tab.

2.Under Data in the left pane, click the suffix to which to add a referral.

3.Click the Suffix Settings tab, and select the Return Referrals for Update Operations radio button.

4.Click the Referrals tab. Enter an LDAP URL in the Enter a new referral field, or click Construct to be guided through the creation of an LDAP URL.

For more information about the structure of LDAP URLs, refer to the Appendix.

5.Click Add to add the referral to the list.

You can enter multiple referrals. The directory will return the entire list of referrals in response to requests from client applications.

6.Click Save.

1.2.3. Disabling a Suffix

Sometimes, a database may need taken down for maintenance, but the data the database contains is not replicated. Rather than returning a referral, disable the suffix responsible for the database.

Once a suffix is disabled, the contents of the database related to the suffix are invisible to client applications when they perform LDAP operations such as search, add, and modify.

To disable a suffix, do the following:

1. In the Directory Server Console, select the Configuration tab.

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