Preface

Oracle Internet Directory Administrator's Guide describes the features, architecture, and administration of Oracle Internet Directory. For information about installation, see the installation documentation for your operating system.

This Preface contains these topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Audience

Oracle Internet Directory Administrator's Guide is intended for anyone who performs administration tasks for the Oracle Internet Directory. You should be familiar with either the UNIX operating system or the Microsoft Windows operating system in order to understand the line-mode commands and examples. You can perform all of the tasks through the line-mode commands, and you can perform most of the tasks through Oracle Directory Manager, which is operating system-independent.

To use this document, you need some familiarity with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Accessibility standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For more information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

TTY Access to Oracle Support Services

Oracle provides dedicated Text Telephone (TTY) access to Oracle Support Services within the United States of America 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For TTY support, call 800.446.2398.

Related Documents

For more information, see:

• Online help available through Oracle Directory Manager, the Oracle Internet Directory Single Sign-On Console, and Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g

• The Oracle Application Server and Oracle Database documentation sets, especially:

  • Oracle Identity Management Infrastructure Administrator's Guide

  • Oracle Identity Management Integration Guide

  • Oracle Identity Management Guide to Delegated Administration

  • Oracle Identity Management Application Developer's Guide

  • Oracle Application Server Single Sign-On Administrator's Guide

  • Oracle Application Server Certificate Authority Administrator's Guide

  • Oracle Identity Management User Reference

  • Oracle Application Server High Availability Guide

  • Oracle Application Server Administrator's Guide

  • Oracle Database Administrator's Guide

  • Oracle Database Net Services Administrator's Guide

  • Oracle Database Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide

  • Oracle Database Advanced Replication

  • Oracle Advanced Security Administrator's Guide

For additional information, see:

• Chadwick, David. Understanding X.500—The Directory. Thomson Computer Press, 1996.

• Howes, Tim and Mark Smith. LDAP: Programming Directory-enabled Applications with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1997.

• Howes, Tim, Mark Smith and Gordon Good, Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services. Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1999.

• Internet Assigned Numbers Authority home page, http://www.iana.org for information about object identifiers

• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) documentation available at: http://www.ietf.org, especially:

  • The LDAPEXT charter and LDAP drafts

  • The LDAP charter and drafts

  • RFC 2254, "The String Representation of LDAP Search Filters"

  • RFC 1823, "The LDAP Application Program Interface"

• The OpenLDAP Community, http://www.openldap.org

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
monospace	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.