About The Setup-Ds-Admin.pl Script - Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 8.1 - INSTALLATION GUIDE 11-01-2010 Installation Manual

Chapter 1. Preparing for a Directory Server Installation
within an organization want individual control of their servers while system administrators require
centralized control of all servers.
When setting up the administration domain, consider the following:
• Each administration domain must have an administration domain owner with complete access to all
the domain servers but no access to the servers in other administration domains. The administration
domain owner may grant individual users administrative access on a server-by-server basis within
the domain.
• All servers must share the same configuration directory. The Configuration Directory Administrator
has complete access to all installed Directory Servers, regardless of the domain.
• Servers on two different domains can use different user directories for authentication and user
management.

1.3. About the setup-ds-admin.pl Script

The Directory Server and Administration Server instances are created and configured through a script
call setup-ds-admin.pl. The Directory Server alone can be created using the setup-ds.pl script.
If simply the setup script is run, then the script launches an interactive installer which prompts for
configuration settings for the Directory Server and Administration Server instances. For example:
setup-ds-admin.pl
The setup-ds-admin.pl script can also accept a setup file or have arguments passed with the
command to supply configuration information automatically.
setup-ds-admin.pl -s -f /export/files/install.inf
setup-ds-admin.pl General.FullMachineName=ldap.example.com
Some options, such as s (silent) and f (file) allow you to supply values for the setup program through
a file. The .inf file (described in more detail in
each of the major components of Directory Server: General (host server), slapd (LDAP server), and
admin (Administration Server).
The same parameters specified in the .inf can be passed directly in the command line. Command-
line arguments with setup-ds-admin.pl specify the .inf setup file section (General, slapd, or
admin), parameter, and value in the following form:
section.parameter=value
For example, to set the machine name, suffix, and Directory Server port of the new instance, the
command is as follows:
setup-ds-admin.pl General.FullMachineName=ldap.example.com slapd.Suffix=dc=example, dc=com"
slapd.ServerPort=389
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Section 5.5, "Silent Setup") has three sections for