HP UX Red Hat Direry Server Software manual Overview of Setup, Setup-ds-admin Options

Option

Overview of Setup

Alternate Options	Description	Example
	specifies a log file to	-l
	which to write the
		/export/example2007.log
	output. If this is not
	set, then the setup	For no log file, set the
	information is written
		file name to
	to a temporary file.
		/dev/null:
		-l /dev/null

Table 1.1. setup-ds-admin Options

4. Overview of Setup

After the Directory Server packages are installed, there is a script, setup-ds-admin.pl, which you run to configure the new Directory Server and Administration Server instance. This script launches an interactive setup program. The setup program supplies default configuration values which you can accept them or substitute with alternatives. There are three kinds of setup modes, depending on what you select when you first launch the setup program:

•Express — The fastest setup mode. This requires minimal interaction and uses default values for almost all settings. Because express installation does not offer the choice of selecting the Directory Server server port number or the directory suffix, among other settings, Red Hat recommends that you not use it for production deployments. Also, express setups can fail if default configuration values are not available because there is no way to offer an alternative.

•Typical — The default and most common setup mode. This prompts you to supply more detailed information about the directory service, like suffix and configuration directory information, while still proceeding quickly through the setup process.

•Custom — The most detailed setup mode. This provides more control over Administration Server settings and also allows data to be imported into the Directory Server at setup, so that entries are already populated in the databases when the setup is complete.

The information requested with the setup process is described in Table 1.2, “Comparison of Setup Types”.

There is a fourth setup option, silent setup, which uses a configuration file and command-line options to supply the Directory Server settings automatically, so there is no user interaction required. It is also possible to pass setup arguments with the script, as described in Section 3, “About the setup-ds-admin.pl Script”. The possible .inf setup file parameters are listed and described in Section 3.5, “About .inf File Parameters”.

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