Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.1 Installation Manual page 77

• Do not install the new Directory Server on top of an existing Directory Server
installation. Install your new Directory Server in a separate directory. Migrate
your legacy directory data into your new directory and when you are satisfied
with the result of the migration, remove your legacy Directory Server.
• If you want to continue to run your legacy Directory Server, when you install
the new Directory Server choose different ports for LDAP traffic and for
secured connections from the ones used by your legacy Directory Server.
If you will not be running your legacy Directory Server, use the same port
numbers to ensure that any directory clients that have static configuration
information (including Directory Server port numbers) will continue to work.
• Your new Directory Server must be running when you execute the migration
script.
• Any custom schema that you created in a legacy 4.x Directory Server must be
stored in the default files or included using an include statement in the
file. The default files for custom schema are
slapd.conf
and
slapd.user_at.conf files
schema that is not stored in those files, refer to the procedure described in
"Identifying Custom Schema" to move it to those files.
• Any custom schema that you created in a 5.x Directory Server must be stored
in an LDIF file in the
• Before performing the migration, check that the user-defined variables contain
the following associated values, where server6Root is the path to where your
new, Directory Server 6.x is installed:
On UNIX, set the following environment variables:
server6Root
PERL5LIB=
server6Root
PATH=
On Windows, set the following environment variables:
server6Root
PERL5LIB=
PATH=server6Root\bin\slapd\admin\bin
• When you run the migration script, it migrates the configuration files or
configuration entries, database instances, and schema with minimum manual
intervention. For complete information on the configuration parameters and
attributes that are migrated, check chapter "Migration from Earlier Versions"
of the Netscape Directory Server Configuration, Command, and File Reference.
in Directory Server 4.x. If you have custom
serverRoot/slapd-serverID/config/schema
/bin/slapd/admin/bin
/bin/slapd/admin/bin:$PATH
\bin\slapd\admin\bin
Chapter 6 Migrating and Upgrading From Previous Versions
Migration Prerequisites
slapd.user_oc.conf
directory.
77