Creating A New Database Link; Table 3-3 Ldap Controls And Their Oids - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.01 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Creating and Maintaining Database Links
Chaining LDAP Controls From the Command Line
You can alter the controls that the database link forwards by changing the
nsTransmittedControls
cn=plugins,cn=config
control, you add the following to your database link entry in the configuration file:
nsTransmittedControls: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.9
In addition, if clients of your directory server create their own controls and you
want their operations to be chained to remote servers, you need to add the OID of
the custom control to the
The LDAP controls you can chain and their OIDs are listed in the following table:
Table 3-3
Control Name
Virtual list view (VLV)
Server side sorting
Managed DSA
Loop detection
For more information about LDAP controls, refer to the LDAP C-SDK
documentation on

Creating a New Database Link

The basic configuration of your database link involves providing the following
information:
Suffix information. You create a suffix in your directory tree that is managed by
the database link, not a regular database. This suffix corresponds to the suffix on
the remote server that contains the data.
Bind credentials. When the database link binds to a remote server, it impersonates
a user. You need to specify the DN and the credentials you want each database link
to use to bind with remote servers.
LDAP URL. You provide the LDAP URL of the remote server to which the
database link connects.
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attribute of the
entry. For example, to forward the virtual list view
nsTransmittedControls
LDAP Controls and Their OIDs
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cn=config,cn=chaining database,
attribute.
OID
2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.9
1.2.840.113556.1.4.473
2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.2
1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.29539.12
.