Maintaining Suffixes; Using Referrals In A Suffix - Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Suffix Attributes (Continued)
Table 3-1
Attribute Name
nsslapd-parent-suffix

Maintaining Suffixes

This section describes the following procedures:
•

Using Referrals in a Suffix

• Enabling Referrals Only During Update Operations
• Disabling a Suffix
• Deleting a Suffix
Using Referrals in a Suffix
Referrals can be used to point a client application temporarily to a different server.
For example, you might add a referral to a suffix so that the suffix points to a
different server when the database associated with the suffix is taken off-line for
maintenance.
For more information on referrals in general, refer to Red Hat Directory Server
Deployment Guide.
To set referrals in a suffix:
In the Directory Server Console, select the Configuration tab.
1.
Under Data in the left pane, select the suffix for which you want to add a
2.
referral.
Click the Suffix Settings tab, and select the "Return Referrals for all
3.
Operations" radio button.
Value
Provides the DN of the parent entry for a sub suffix. By default, this
attribute is not present, which means that the suffix is regarded as a
root suffix.
For example, you want to create a sub suffix
o=sales,dc=example,dc=com under the root suffix
dc=example,dc=com. Add the following value to the
nsslapd-parent-suffix attribute of the sub suffix:
nsslapd-parent-suffix: "dc=example,dc=com"
Creating and Maintaining Suffixes
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