IBM Tivoli Directory Server, Version 6.3

Contents

About this book

Intended audience for this book

IBM Tivoli Directory Server version 6.3 library

Related publications

Accessing terminology online

Accessing publications online

Ordering publications

Tivoli technical training

Tivoli user groups

Support information

Conventions used in this book

Typeface conventions

Operating system-dependent variables and paths

Installation roadmap for a server

Quick installation path for a server

Installing Tivoli Directory Server on a Windows system using the Typical installation path

Installing Tivoli Directory Server on an AIX, Linux, or Solaris system using the Typical installation path

Loading a sample database and starting the server

Starting the Web Administration Tool

Installation, instance creation, configuration, and upgrade overview

Before you begin: .zip, .tar, and .iso files

Upgrading from a previous release

Web Administration Tool

Embedded WebSphere Application Server

Global Security Kit (GSKit)

Client package installation

Tivoli Directory Server solutions based on IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator

Instance creation and database configuration

Database configuration and server setup

Upgrading from previous releases

About the client

Before you upgrade

Upgrading using the command line and operating system utilities

Migrating from IBM DB2 ESE to IBM DB2 WSE

Upgrading remotely

Upgrading Embedded WebSphere Application Server and migrating the Web Administration Tool

Upgrading Embedded WebSphere Application Server and deploying the Web Administration Tool

Upgrading the Embedded WebSphere Application Server v7.0 to latest fix pack level

Migrating Tivoli Directory Server solutions based on IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator

Migrating Tivoli Directory Server solutions from an earlier version to IBM Tivoli Directory Server version 6.3

Installing language packs using the InstallShield GUI

Considerations before you install on AIX, Linux, and Solaris systems

Installing Tivoli Directory Server: use InstallShield GUI or operating system utilities, but not both

Mounting and unmounting the DVD during installation

Mounting the DVD and starting the installation program on Linux systems

The idsldap user and group

Installation directory on AIX, Linux, and Solaris platforms

Using commands to set and remove links

Installing Tivoli Directory Server using the InstallShield GUI

Before you install

Installing Tivoli Directory Server on a Windows system

Installing with the Typical installation path on Windows systems

Installing with the Custom installation path on Windows systems

Installing Tivoli Directory Server on an AIX, Linux, or Solaris system

Installing with the Typical installation path on AIX, Linux, and Solaris systems

Installing with the Custom installation path on AIX, Linux, and Solaris systems

After you install using the InstallShield GUI

Installing Tivoli Directory Server using AIX utilities

Before installing on a node within an RS/6000 SP environment

Packages, filesets, and prerequisites

SMIT installation

Command line installation using installp

Installing GSKit

Setting system variables for GSKit

Installing Tivoli Directory Server using Linux utilities

Installing Tivoli Directory Server

Installing features

Installing GSKit

Installing Tivoli Directory Server using Solaris utilities

Before you install

Installing Tivoli Directory Server

Package dependencies

Command line installation using pkgadd

Installing GSKit

Installing Tivoli Directory Server clients using HP-UX utilities

Before you install

Installing Tivoli Directory Server client only packages

Package dependencies

Installing using swinstall

Installing GSKit

Installing and uninstalling silently on Windows systems

Silent installation

Installing the server or client silently

Installing language packs silently

Verifying the silent installation

Options files for silent installation of servers and language packs

Silent uninstallation

Options files for silent uninstallation of servers and language packs

Creating and administering instances

Starting the Instance Administration Tool

Creating a directory server instance

Creating an instance with the Instance Administration Tool

Creating an instance with the command line

Starting or stopping the directory server or the administration server

Starting or stopping the directory server or the administration server with the Instance Administration Tool

Starting or stopping the directory server or the administration server with the command line

Launching the Configuration Tool from the Instance Administration Tool

Changing the TCP/IP settings for an instance

Changing the TCP/IP settings with the Instance Administration Tool

Changing the TCP/IP settings with the command line

Viewing information about an instance

Viewing information about an instance using the Instance Administration Tool

Viewing information about an instance using the command line

Deleting a directory server instance

Deleting an instance using the Instance Administration Tool

Deleting an instance using the command line

Starting and using the IBM Tivoli Directory Server Configuration Tool (idsxcfg)

Starting or stopping the directory server or the administration server

Starting or stopping the directory server or the administration server with the Configuration Tool

Starting or stopping the directory server or the administration server with the command line

Managing the primary administrator DN for a directory server instance

Managing the primary administrator DN with the Configuration Tool

Managing the primary administrator DN with the command line

Managing the primary administrator password for a directory server instance

Managing the primary administrator password with the Configuration Tool

Managing the primary administrator password with the command line

Configuring the database for a directory server instance

Configuring the database with the Configuration Tool

Configuring the database with the command line

Changing the password for the database owner

Changing the password for the database owner with the Configuration Tool

Changing the password for the database owner with the command line

Unconfiguring the database for a directory server instance

Unconfiguring the database with the Configuration Tool

Unconfiguring the database with the command line

Optimizing the database

Using the Configuration Tool

Using the command line

Maintaining the database

Performing database maintenance tasks with the Configuration Tool

Performing database maintenance tasks with the command line

Backing up the directory server instance

Backing up the database with the Configuration Tool

Backing up the database with the command line

Restoring the database

Using the Configuration Tool

Using the command line

Tuning the performance of the directory server

Performance tuning with the Configuration Tool

Performance tuning with the command line

Enabling or disabling the change log for a directory server instance

Enabling the change log

Disabling the change log

Managing suffixes

Adding a suffix

Removing a suffix

Managing schema files

Adding a schema file

Removing a schema file

Changing the type of validation checking that is done

Importing and exporting LDIF data

Importing LDIF data with the Configuration Tool

Validating LDIF data without adding it to the database using the Configuration Tool

Exporting LDIF data with the Configuration Tool

Configuring Active Directory synchronization

Configuring Active Directory synchronization with the Configuration Tool

Configuring Active Directory synchronization with the command line

After you install and configure

Starting the directory server instance

Starting the directory server instance at operating system startup

Autostart on Windows systems

Autostart on AIX, Linux, and Solaris systems

Starting the Web application server to use the Web Administration Tool

Starting the Web Administration Tool

Stopping the Web application server

Setting kernel parameters on Solaris systems

Uninstalling Tivoli Directory Server

Uninstalling Tivoli Directory Server using the InstallShield GUI

Uninstalling language packs using the InstallShield GUI

Uninstalling using operating system utilities

Solaris systems

HP-UX (Itanium) systems

Appendix A. Directory structure of downloaded files

Directory structure for Windows files

Directory structure for AIX files

Directory structure for AIX server packages

Directory structure for AIX client only package

Directory structure for Linux files

Directory structure for Linux client only packages

Directory structure for Solaris SPARC files

Directory structure for Solaris SPARC client only package

Directory structure for Solaris X64 files

Directory structure for Solaris X64 client only package

Directory structure for HP-UX Integrity files

Appendix B. Disk space requirements for installable features

Windows disk space requirements

AIX disk space requirements

Linux disk space requirements

Solaris disk space requirements

HP-UX disk space requirements

Appendix C. Configuration planning

Appendix D. Setting up users and groups: directory server instance owner, database instance owner, and database owner

Additional restrictions for users and groups

Creating instance owners: examples

Appendix E. Synchronizing two-way cryptography between server instances

Appendix F. Directory server instances

Directory server instance content on Windows systems

Directory server instance content on AIX, Linux, and Solaris systems

Appendix G. Backup and restore methods

Methods that back up complete directory server instance information

Methods that back up database information only

Appendix H. Installing, configuring, and uninstalling Embedded WebSphere Application Server

Manually installing and configuring Embedded WebSphere Application Server

Installing Embedded WebSphere Application Server

Deploying the Web Administration Tool into Embedded WebSphere Application Server

Uninstalling the Web Administration Tool from Embedded WebSphere Application Server

Default ports for Embedded WebSphere Application Server for the Web Administration Tool

Using HTTPS for Embedded WebSphere Application Server

Appendix I. Deploying the Web Administration Tool into WebSphere

Appendix J. Updating the ldapdb.properties file

Appendix K. ASCII characters from 33 to 126

Appendix L. Information for bundlers

How to install silently

Environment variable for silent installation with native packages

Starting the instance administration tool in migration mode

Appendix M. Installing and configuring DSML

Appendix N. Loading the sample LDIF file into the database

Appendix O. UTF-8 support

Why choose anything other than UTF-8?

Server utilities

Supported IANA character sets

Appendix P. Installing and uninstalling GSKit manually on Windows operating systems

Appendix Q. Setting up GSKit to support CMS key databases

Appendix R. Accessibility features for Tivoli Directory Server

Keyboard navigation

Magnifying what is displayed on the screen

IBM and accessibility

Appendix S. Notices

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