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To fulfill these functions, CMS maintains a persistent store—a preconfigured
Netscape Directory Server—referred to as the internal database or local database. The
internal database is installed automatically as a part of the CMS installation. It is
used as an embedded database exclusively by CMS and can be managed using
Directory management tools that come with Netscape Directory Server.
The Directory Server instance used for the internal database is different from the
LDAP-compliant directory that you use to manage your corporate wide data (users
and groups, their certificates, CRLs, and so on).
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In Netscape Console, you can distinguish an internal database instance from
other Directory Server instances. It is in this form:
<cms_instance_id>-db
<cms_instance_id>
You first specified this when you installed this server.
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If you check the files installed under
instance appears like this:
Keep in mind that the subsystems use the database for storing different objects. A
Certificate Manager stores all the data, certificate issuance requests, certificates,
CRLs, and related information; a Registration Manager only stores the certificate
issuance requests it receives; and a Data Recovery Manager only stores key records
and related data.
Changing the Internal Database Configuration
To change the Directory Server instance that a CMS instance uses as its internal
database:
Log in to the CMS console (see "Logging Into the CMS Console" on page 247).
1.
Select the Configuration tab, and then in the right pane, select the Internal
2.
Database tab.
Change a Directory Server instance by changing the following fields:
3.
Host name. Type the fully qualified host name of the machine on which
Netscape Directory Server is installed. CMS uses this name to access the
directory. The format for the host name is as follows:
<machine_name>.<your_domain>.<domain>
is the ID of the CMS instance that is using the database.
<server_root>
slapd-<cms_instance_id>-db
The Internal Database
, the internal database
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