Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.01 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual page 78

Creating and Maintaining Suffixes
Click OK to create the new sub suffix.
6.
The suffix appears automatically under its root suffix in the Data tree in the left
navigation pane.
Creating Root and Sub Suffixes From the Command Line
Use the
configuration file. The suffix configuration information is stored in the
tree,cn=config
NOTE
For example, you want to add a new root suffix to the configuration file using the
ldapmodify
the utility:
cd /usr/netscape/servers/shared/bin
Then, run
ldapmodify -a -h example1 -p 389 -D "cn=directory manager" -w secret
The
ldapmodify
configuration file.
Next, you create the root suffix entry for
dn: cn="dc=example,dc=com",cn=mapping tree,cn=config
objectclass: top
objectclass: extensibleObject
objectclass: nsMappingTree
nsslapd-state: backend
nsslapd-backend: UserData
cn: dc=example,dc=com
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command-line utility to add new suffixes to your directory
ldapmodify
entry.
Avoid creating entries under the
file. The
cn=config
file is not stored in the same highly scalable database as regular
entries. As a result, if many entries, and particularly entries that are
likely to be updated frequently, are stored under
performance will probably suffer.
However, although we recommend you do not store simple user
entries under
cn=config
store special user entries such as the Directory Manager entry or
Replication Manager (supplier bind DN) entry under
this allows you to centralize configuration information.
utility. First, type the following to change to the directory containing
as follows:
ldapmodify
utility binds to the server and prepares it to add an entry to the
cn=config
entry in the simple, flat
for performance reasons, it can be useful to
example.com
cn=mapping
entry in the
dse.ldif
configuration
dse.ldif
,
cn=config
cn=config,
Corporation as follows:
as