Disabling A Suffix; Deleting A Suffix - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.2 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Disabling a Suffix

Sometime you may need to take down a database for maintenance, but the data the
database contains is not replicated. Rather than returning a referral, you can
disable the suffix responsible for the database.
Once you disable a suffix, the contents of the database related to the suffix are
invisible to client applications when they perform LDAP operations such as search,
add, and modify.
To disable a suffix:
In the Directory Server Console, select the Configuration tab.
1.
Under Data in the left navigation pane, click the suffix you want to disable.
2.
Click the Suffix Setting tab, and deselect the "Enable this suffix" checkbox.
3.
A red dot appears on the Suffix Setting tab to alert you to changes that need to
be saved.
Click Save.
4.
The suffix is no longer enabled.

Deleting a Suffix

The following procedure describes deleting a suffix:
CAUTION When you delete a suffix, you also delete all database entries and
replication information associated with that suffix.
In the Directory Server Console, select the Configuration tab.
1.
Under Data in the left navigation pane, select the suffix you want to delete.
2.
Select Delete from the Object menu.
3.
You can also right-click the suffix and select Delete from the pop-up menu.
Select "Delete this suffix and all of its sub suffixes" if you want to remove all
4.
the suffix and every suffix below it.
Select "Delete this suffix only" if you want to remove only this particular
suffix, not its sub suffixes.
Creating and Maintaining Suffixes
Chapter 3 Configuring Directory Databases 89