Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.01 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual page 102

Creating and Maintaining Database Links
Providing an LDAP URL
On the server containing your database link, you have to identify the remote server
that the database link connects with using an LDAP URL. Unlike the standard
LDAP URL format, the URL of the remote server does not specify a suffix. It takes
the following form:
ldap://
You specify the URL of the remote server using the
the
cn=
of the configuration file. For example, the
follows:
nsFarmServerURL: ldap://example.com:389/
Do not forget to use the trailing slash (/) at the end of the URL.
If you want to the database link to connect to the remote server using LDAP over
SSL, the LDAP URL of the remote server takes the following form:
ldaps://
For more information about chaining and SSL, refer to "Chaining Using SSL," on
page 107.
Providing a List of Failover Servers
You can include additional LDAP URLs for servers to use in the case of failure. To
do so, add alternate servers to the
For example, you might enter the following:
nsFarmServerURL: ldap://example.com us.example.com:389
africa.example.com:1000/
In this sample LDAP URL, the database link first contacts the server
on the standard port to service an operation. If it does not respond, the database
link then contacts the server
then contacts
Summary of Database Link Configuration Attributes
The following table lists the attributes available for configuring a database link.
Some of these attributes were discussed in the earlier sections.
Attributes marked with an asterisk (*) can be both global or instance attributes. All
instance attributes are defined in the
database,cn=plugins,cn=config
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servername:portnumber
database_link_name
,cn=chaining database,cn=plugins,cn=config
servername:portnumber
africa.example.com
/
nsFarmServerURL
/
nsFarmServerURL
on port
us.example.com
on port .
1000
database_link_name
cn=
entry.
attribute in
nsFarmServerURL
might appear as
attribute, separated by spaces.
example.com
. If this server fails, it
389
,cn=chaining
entry