Sybase DC35823-01-1500-04 manual Adding a server to the directory services

Adding a server to the directory services

Adding a server to the directory services

Warning! Most LDAP servers have an ldapadd utility for adding directory entries. Sybase recommends you use dsedit instead since it has built-in semantic checks that generic tools do not provide.

Each server entry is made up of a set of attributes. When you add or modify a server entry, you are prompted for information about server attributes. Some attributes are provided by default, others require user input. When a default value is provided, it appears in brackets “[ ]”. See Table 6-2 for accepted values.

You can use srvbuild to add entries, but not modify or delete them.

vAdding a server entry to the directory service using dsedit

Before you can add, delete, or modify an LDAP server entry, you must add the LDAP URL to the libtcl.cfg file. See “The libtcl*.cfg file” on page 73.

Use dsedit to add a server to the directory service:

1 Source SYBASE.csh or SYBASE.sh to set the environment variables. 2 cd to $SYBASE/$SYBASE_OCS/bin.

3 Execute dsedit.

4Select LDAP from the list of servers, and click OK.

5Click Add New Server Entry.

6Enter:

•The server name – this is required.

•The security mechanism – optional. This is the name of the high- availability failover server, if you have one.

7Click Add New Network Transport and:

•Select the transport type from the drop-down list.

•Enter the host name.

•Enter the port number

8Click OK two times to edit dsedit.

To view the server entries, enter the following URL in Netscape

http://host:port/ditbase??one.

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