Deleting Indexes From The Command Line; Deleting An Index Entry - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.2 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Deleting Indexes
Click Save.
4.
A Delete Index warning dialog box appears asking you to confirm that you
want to delete the index.
Click Yes to delete the index.
5.
The Delete Browsing Index dialog box appears displaying the status of the
6.
index deletion. You can click on the Status Logs button to view the status of the
indexes deleted.
Once the indexing is complete, click on Close to close the Delete Browsing
7.
Index box.

Deleting Indexes From the Command Line

You can browsing index, or virtual list view (VLV) indexes using the
command-line utility as follows:
• Delete an entire index entry or delete unwanted index types from an existing
index entry using the
• Generate the new set of indexes to be maintained by the server using the
db2index.pl
The following sections describe the steps involved in deleting an index.

Deleting an Index Entry

Use the
or the unwanted index types from an existing entry.
If you want to delete the indexes for a particular database, you remove your index
entry from the
database,cn=plugins,cn=config
the name of the database.
To delete a default index, remove it from the
indexes,cn=config,cn=ldbm database,cn=plugins,cn=config
For example, you want to delete presence, equality and substring indexes for the sn
attribute on the database named
You want to delete the following entry:
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ldapdelete
script.
command-line utility to delete either the entire indexing entry
ldapdelete
cn=index,cn=instanceName,cn=ldbm
command-line utility.
entry, where
cn=instanceName
cn=default
.
Example1
ldapdelete
corresponds to
entry.