IBM Tivoli Directory Server, Version 6.3

Creating and administering instances

During or after installation of a server, you must create a directory server instance and then set the administrator DN and password for the instance. For a full directory server, you must also configure the database that is associated with the server instance. (For a proxy server, no database is configuration is required.)

Note:

A file named ldapdb.properties is created for each non-proxy directory server instance you create. This file resides in the etc directory of the instance directory (idsslapd-instance_name\etc on Windows systems or idsslapd-instance_name/etc on AIX®, Linux, or Solaris systems). It contains the version of DB2® that the instance is using, as well as the path where that version of DB2 is installed. For more information, see Appendix J. Updating the ldapdb.properties file.

The Instance Administration Tool (idsxinst) is a graphical user interface (GUI) that you can use to create and manage directory server instances. When you use the Instance Administration Tool, the tool guides you through the steps you need.

You can use the Instance Administration Tool to create, view, copy, change information about, and delete instances. You can also use this tool to create or edit the users who own directory server instances and to migrate instances from some previous versions of Tivoli Directory Server. You can use the Instance Administration Tool to start or stop the server or the administration server for your instances. In addition, you can launch the Configuration Tool from the Instance Administration Tool.

You can also use command-line utilities for these tasks.

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