Web administration

The Web administration console is a useful tool to help you administer directory servers.

One or more directory servers can be administered through the Web administration console. The Web administration console allows you to do the following tasks:

  • Add or change the list of directory servers that can be administered.
  • Administer a directory server using the Web administration tool.
  • Change Web administration console properties.

To use the Web administration console, do the following steps:

  1. If this is the first time that you are using Directory Server Web administration, set up Web administration (see Setting up Web administration for the first time) and then continue with the next step.
  2. Log in to the IBM Tivoli Directory Server Web administration tool by doing one of the following steps.
    • From , select your system > Network > Servers > TCP/IP, right-click IBM Tivoli Directory Server for i5/OS and select Server Administration.
    • From (http://your_server:2001), from the Tasks page, click IBM Tivoli Directory Server Web Administration Tool.
  3. Depending on your specific administration tasks, log in with the corresponding user ID and password on different login displays.
    Note: You can switch between the Directory server login display and the Console administration login display by clicking the Login to Console admin link or the Login to a registered directory server link at the bottom right of the display.
    • To administer a directory server, follow these steps:
      1. In the Directory server login display, select the directory server that you want to administer from the LDAP Hostname list.
      2. Enter the administrator user DN that you use to bind to the directory server.
      3. Enter the administrator's password.
      4. Click Login. The IBM Tivoli Directory Server Web Administration Tool page is displayed. For more information about the IBM Tivoli Directory Server Web Administration Tool page, see Web administration tool.
      5. Select specific options to administer the directory server.
    • To add or change the list of directory servers that can be administered, or to change the Web administration console attributes, follow these steps:
      1. On the Console administration login display, enter the console administrator user ID.
      2. Enter the console administrator's password.
      3. Click Login. The IBM Tivoli Directory Server Web Administration Tool page is displayed. For more information about the IBM Tivoli Directory Server Web Administration Tool page, see Web administration tool.
      4. Expand Console administration and select one of the following options to perform your specific task:
        • To change the name of the console administrator login, click Change console administrator login.
        • To change the console administrator's password, click Change console administrator password.
        • To change which directory servers can be administered by the Web administration console, click Manage console servers.
        • To change the properties of the Web administration console, click Manage console properties.
        • To change the web administration search properties, click Manage properties for webadmin searches.