Planning Client Profiles and Default Attribute Values

By going through the previous planning steps (network model, DIT, and security model), you should have some ideas of what the values for the following profile attributes.

• cn

• defaultServerList

• preferredServerList

• bindTimeLimit

• searchTimeLimit

• profileTTL

• defaultSearchBase

• defaultSearchScope

• serviceSearchDescriptor

• attributeMap

• objectclassMap

• followReferrals

• credentialLevel

• authenticationMethod

• serviceCredentialLevel

• serviceAuthenticationMethod

Out of the above attributes, only the cn, the defaultServerList and defaultSearchBase are required attributes. They have no default values. The rest are optional, and some have default values.

See Chapter 16, Client Setup (Task) for more information on setting up LDAP clients.