Creating Indexes; Creating Indexes From The Server Console - Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 8.0 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

Chapter 10. Managing Indexes
As this example shows, the number of actions required to create and maintain databases for a large
directory can be resource-intensive.

10.2. Creating Indexes

This section describes how to create presence, equality, approximate, substring, and international
indexes for specific attributes using the Directory Server Console and the command-line.
NOTE
Because Directory Server 8.0 can operate in either a single or multi-database
environment, remember to create new indexes in every database instance since newly-
created indexes are not automatically created in the other databases. However, the same
is not true for default indexes because they are automatically present and maintained
in subsequent database instances but not added to existing ones. In other words, the
directory uses the most recently-created set of default indexes in subsequent databases.
This means that if you add a default index to your second database instance, it will not
be maintained in your first database instance but will be maintained in any subsequent
instances.
NOTE
The procedure for creating browsing indexes is different than for creating other index
types; that procedure is covered in
Server Console".
Section 10.2.1, "Creating Indexes from the Server Console"
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Section 10.2.2, "Creating Indexes from the Command-Line"
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Section 10.2.3, "Creating Browsing Indexes from the Server Console"
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Section 10.2.4, "Creating Browsing Indexes from the Command-Line"
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10.2.1. Creating Indexes from the Server Console

This section describes how to create presence, equality, approximate, substring, and international
indexes for specific attributes using the Directory Server Console.
To create any of these indexes, do the following:
1. Select the Configuration tab.
2. Expand the Data node, expand the suffix of the database to index, and select the database.
3. Select the Indexes tab in the right pane.
NOTE
Do not click the Database Settings node because this opens the Default Index
Settings window, not the window for configuring indexes per database.
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Section 10.2.3, "Creating Browsing Indexes from the