Introduction To Red Hat Admin Server - Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 8.1 - USING THE ADMIN SERVER Using Instructions

Chapter 1.

Introduction to Red Hat Admin Server

Identity management and directory services with Red Hat Directory Server use three components,
working in tandem:
• A Java-based management console
• An administration server which also functions as a web server
• An LDAP directory server
Figure 1.1. Interactions between the Console, Admin Server and Directory Server
The Admin Server processes configuration requests for Directory Server instances and performs many
common server tasks, such as stopping and starting server instances. Directory services are usually
divided into two categories: configuration databases which store the Console and Admin Server
settings and some Directory Server configuration and user databases which contain user and group
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