Cloning A Directory Server; Creating A New Directory Server Instance - Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Cloning a Directory Server

To enable the Directory Server to track this information:
In the Directory Server Console, select the Configuration tab, and then select
1.
the top entry in the navigation tree in the left pane.
Select the Settings tab in the right pane.
2.
Select the Track Entry Modification Times checkbox.
3.
The server adds the
modifyTimestamp
Click Save, and then restart the server.
4.
See "Starting and Stopping the Directory Server," on page 37, for more
information.
Cloning a Directory Server
Once you have set up and configured your Directory Server, Red Hat Console
offers a simple way of duplicating your configuration on another instance of the
Directory Server. This is a two-phase procedure:
• First, you must create a new instance of the Directory Server.
• Second, you must clone the configuration of your first Directory Server
instance and apply it to the new one.
NOTE

Creating a New Directory Server Instance

In the Red Hat Console window, select Server Group in the navigation tree,
1.
and then right click.
From the pop-up menu, select Create Instance of > Directory Server.
2.
The Create New Instance dialog box is displayed.
Enter a unique identifier for the server in the Server Identifier field.
3.
This name must not include the period (.) symbol.
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attributes to every newly created or modified entry.
The configuration information that is duplicated during these
operations does not include the
configuration directory.
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, and
suffix of the