Determining Your Directory Suffix; Determining The Location Of The Configuration Directory - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.01 Installation Manual

Configuration Decisions
Normally, Administration Server user and password should be identical to the
configuration directory administrator ID and password.

Determining Your Directory Suffix

A directory suffix is the directory entry that represents the first entry in a directory
tree. You will need at least one directory suffix for the tree that will contain your
enterprise's data. It is common practice to select a directory suffix that corresponds
to the DNS host name used by your enterprise. For example, if your organization
uses the DNS name
For more information on planning the suffixes for your directory service, see the
Netscape Directory Server Deployment Guide.
Determining the Location of the Configuration
Directory
Many Netscape servers, including Directory Server 6.0, use an instance of
Directory Server to store configuration information. This information is stored in
the
o=NetscapeRoot
Directory Server as your directory data. Your configuration directory is the Directory
Server that contains the
If you are installing Directory Server only to support other Netscape servers, then
that Directory Server is your configuration directory. If you are installing Directory
Server to use as part of a general directory service, then you will have multiple
Directory Servers installed in your enterprise and you must decide which one will
host the configuration directory tree,
decision before you install any Netscape servers (including Directory Server).
For ease of upgrades, you should use a Directory Server instance that is dedicated
to supporting the
other function with regard to managing your enterprise's directory data. Also, do
not use port 389 for this server instance because doing so could prevent you from
installing a Directory Server on that host that can be used for management of your
enterprise's directory data.
Because the configuration directory normally experiences very little traffic, you can
allow its server instance to coexist on a machine with another more heavily loaded
Directory Server instance. However, for very large sites that are installing a large
number of Netscape servers, you may want to dedicate a low-end machine to the
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, then select a suffix of
example.com
directory tree. It does not need to be held on the same
o=NetscapeRoot
o=NetscapeRoot
tree; this server instance should perform no
o=NetscapeRoot
dc=example,dc=com
tree used by your Netscape servers.
. You must make this
.