Tuning And Optimizations; Operations Decisions; A Multinational Enterprise And Its Extranet - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 7.0 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual

A Multinational Enterprise and Its Extranet

Tuning and Optimizations

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• Running the
The
levels and kernel parameter settings for your system. For more information
about
• Optimizing the entry and database caches.
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250 MB to ensure that all of the indexes fit into RAM, optimizing server
performance.

Operations Decisions

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of its directory:
• Back up the databases every night, and write the backups to tape once a week.
• Use SNMP to monitor the server status.
For more information about SNMP, refer to the Netscape Directory Server
Administrator's Guide.
• Auto-rotate the access logs.
• Monitor the error log to see if the server is performing as expected.
• Monitor the access log to screen for searches that should be indexed.
For more information about the access, error, and audit logs, refer to "Monitoring
Server and Database Activity" in the Netscape Directory Server Administrator's
Guide.
A Multinational Enterprise and Its Extranet
This example builds a directory infrastructure for
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multinational company. This example builds on the directory structure created in
the last example for
meet its new needs.
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optimizes its deployment of directory by doing the following:
utility.
dsktune
utility provides an easy and reliable way of checking the patch
dsktune
, see the Netscape Directory Server Installation Guide.
dsktune
sets the entry cache to 2000 entries and the database cache to
makes the following decisions regarding the day-to-day operation
Corporation from the previous example has grown into a large,
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Corporation, expanding the directory design to
International.