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

Use the following information to install Tivoli Directory Server on an AIX®, Linux, or Solaris system using the InstallShield GUI and the Typical installation path if you are willing to accept the defaults.

Notes:

When installing Tivoli® Directory Server on AIX, Linux, or Solaris system using the InstallSheild GUI, ensure that the install_tds.bin command is run from a command-line program that supports GUI.

For best results on Solaris X64 system, use the Custom installation path. If you use the Typical installation path, default instance creation might fail without displaying an error message. However, you can tell that the error occurred in the following ways:

When the Instance Administration Tool is launched at the end of installation, the default instance, dsrdbm01, will not be listed as an existing instance.
When the error occurs during installation, the /opt/IBM/ldap/V6.3/var/ldapinst.log logs the following error: com.installshield.wizardx.panels.CustomDialog, err, java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /opt/IBM/ldap/V6.3/lib64/libcfgadminjni.so: ld.so.1: java: fatal: /opt/IBM/ldap/V6.3/lib64/libcfgadminjni.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 (Possible cause: architecture word width mismatch).

To work around this problem, do one of the following:

Use the Typical installation path to install Tivoli Directory Server. After installation, use the Instance Administration Tool to create the default instance or any other instance. See Creating an instance with the Instance Administration Tool for information about creating an instance.
Use the Custom installation path to install Tivoli Directory Server. See Before you install and Installing with the Custom installation path on AIX, Linux, and Solaris systems for information about using the Custom installation path. After installation, use the Instance Administration Tool to create the default instance or any other instance. See Creating an instance with the Instance Administration Tool for information about creating an instance.

To install Tivoli Directory Server, do the following:

Log on to the system as root if you are not already logged on.

Use the following steps to start the installation program:

If you are installing from a DVD, insert the DVD in your DVD drive.
Find the directory where the installation program is located in one of the following ways:
- If you are installing locally from a DVD or remotely from the network, select the drive for your DVD or for the appropriate network path, and then go to the tds folder.
- If you downloaded the tar files, save all the tar files in the same directory. Untar all the .tar files, and then go to the tdsV6.3/tds folder.

Run tdsV6.3/tds/install_tds.bin. After the installation program is initialized, the language window is displayed.

Select the language you want to use during Tivoli Directory Server installation. Click OK.

Note:

This is the language used only in the installation program. It is not the language used for messages, tools such as the Configuration Tool, or for storing data in Tivoli Directory Server.

In the Welcome window, click Next.

After reading the Software license agreement, select I accept the terms in the license agreement if you are willing to accept the agreement. Click Next.

Any previously installed components and their corresponding version levels are displayed. Click Next.

Select Typical, and then click Next.

If multiple supported versions of DB2® are already installed on the system, choose the DB2 you want to use, and then click Next.

A window summarizing the components to be installed and configured is displayed.

Note:

Any corequisite products needed by Tivoli Directory Server, such as DB2 and GSKit, are automatically installed. These products are listed in the summary. You cannot select which components to install using the Typical installation path.

To begin installation, click Install.

Progress panels are displayed as Tivoli Directory Server and its corequisite products are installed.

To create the default directory server instance, which is named dsrdbm01, a window is displayed requesting passwords and an encryption seed. Set the passwords and encryption seed by doing the following:

In the User password field, type a user password for the operating system user. Be sure that the password meets the password requirements for your operating system. (The Typical installation creates an operating system user named dsrdbm01 who owns the directory server instance; you are specifying the password for this user.)
In the Confirm password field, type the password again for confirmation.
In the Encryption seed field, type the encryption seed. The encryption seed must contain only printable ISO-8859-1 ASCII characters with values in the range of 33 to 126 inclusive, and must be a minimum of 12 and a maximum of 1016 characters in length. For information about characters that can be used, see Appendix K. ASCII characters from 33 to 126.
Note:

Save the encryption seed for future references.
This encryption seed is used to generate a set of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) secret key values. These values are used to encrypt and decrypt directory stored password and secret key attributes.
In the Confirm seed field, type the encryption seed again for confirmation.
In the Administrator DN password field, type the administrator password for the directory server instance. This is the password associated with the cn=root primary administrator.
In the Confirm DN password field, type the password again for confirmation.

Click Next.

The Installation complete window is displayed. The installation is complete, and the default directory server instance has been created.

The Instance Administration Tool is launched. You can use this tool to view information about and manage directory server instances.

To test the installation by loading a sample database and starting the server, see Loading a sample database and starting the server.