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Chapter 3.

Setting up Red Hat Directory Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Installing and configuring Red Hat Directory Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux has three major steps:

1.Install the required version of the Java® Runtime Environment (JRE).

2.Install the Directory Server packages.

3.Run the setup-ds-admin.plscript. This is where all of the information about the new Directory Server instance is supplied.

WARNING

If Directory Server is already installed on your machine, it is extremely important that you perform a migration, not a fresh installation. Migration is described in Chapter 8, Migrating from Previous Versions.

NOTE

Before beginning the installation process, make sure that your system meets the requirements in Section 2.2, “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5”.

NOTE

Red Hat Directory Server is also supported running on a virtual guest on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization Server 5.

There are three interactive ways of setting up Directory Server: express, typical, and custom. These setup types provide different levels of control over the configuration settings, such as port numbers, directory suffixes, and users and groups for the Directory Server processes. Express has the least amount of input, meaning it uses more default or randomly-generated settings, while custom allows the most control over the configuration by having the user supply a lot of configuration information. These setup types are described more in Table 1.2, “Comparison of Setup Types”. For most deployments, the typical installation type is recommended.

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