Basic Tasks In The Red Hat Console; Installing The Console; Launching The Console - Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 8.1 - USING CONSOLE 4-28-2008 Using Instruction

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Chapter 2.

Basic Tasks in the Red Hat Console

While most server management functions are carried out in server-specific console windows for the

Red Hat Directory Server and Administration Server, the main Red Hat Console itself has some basic

management functions, such as creating server instances, searching the directory, setting some

access controls, and allowing some entry modifications.

This chapter covers basic tasks in the Red Hat Console, including installing the Console, creating and

editing server instances, and configuring the Console appearance.

The Red Hat Console package, redhat-ds-console.noarch, can be installed on Red Hat

Enterprise Linux systems using tools like yum. For example:

yum install redhat-idm-console

The Red Hat Console package and also be downloaded through Red Hat Network and installed using

package management tools such as rpm and pkgadd. For example:

rpm -ivh redhat-idm-console-1.0.0-22.el4idm.i386.rpm

1. Run the redhat-idm-console command. For example:

redhat-idm-console -a http://server.example.com:9830

The different options for the redhat-idm-console command are listed in

for

redhat-idm-console".

2. Enter the user name and password.

Also, enter or select the URL for the instance of Administration Server, if one was not passed

with the command. The URL can be either the hostname or the IP address of the Administration

Table 2.1, "Arguments

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