Chapter 2. System Requirements

are listed in Section 2.4.1, “Solaris Patches”, and the recommended configuration changes are

described in Section 2.4.2, “Solaris System Configuration”.

Criteria

 

Requirements

 

 

 

Operating System

 

Solaris 9 with the latest patches and upgrades

 

 

 

CPU Type

 

UltraSparc-IIi SPARC v9 300MHz or faster

 

 

(64-bit)

 

 

 

Memory/RAM

 

256 MB minimum

 

 

 

 

1 GB RAM for large environments

 

 

 

Hard Disk

 

200 MB of disk space minimum for a typical

 

 

 

 

deployment

 

 

2 GB minimum for larger environments

 

 

4 GB minimum for very large environments

 

 

(more than a million entries)

 

 

You must use the largefile command to

 

 

configure database files larger than 2 GB.

 

 

 

Other

 

To run the Directory Server using port

 

 

numbers less than 1024, such as the default

 

 

port 389, you must setup and start the

 

 

Directory Server as root, but it is not

 

 

necessary to run the Directory Server as

 

 

root.

 

 

 

Table 2.7. Sun Solaris sparcv9

2.4.1. Solaris Patches

The patches required to run the Directory Server on Solaris 9 are listed in Table 2.8, “Sun Solaris Patches”. Run the dsktune utility to see if you need to install any other patches. dsktune helps verify whether the appropriate patches are installed on the system and provides useful information for tuning your kernel parameters for best performance. For information on dsktune, see Section 2.1, “Using dsktune”.

Patch ID

Description

 

 

112998-03

SunOS 5.9: patch /usr/sbin/syslogd

 

 

112875-01

SunOS 5.9: patch

 

/usr/lib/netsvc/rwall/rpc.rwalld

 

 

113146-04

SunOS 5.9: Apache Security Patch

 

 

113068-05

SunOS 5.9: hpc3130 patch

 

 

112963-14

SunOS 5.9: linker patch

 

 

113273-08

SunOS 5.9: /usr/lib/ssh/sshd patch

 

 

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