Preface

The Oracle Internet Directory Administrator's Guide describes the features, architecture, and administration of Oracle Internet Directory. For information about installation, see the Oracle 8i Release 8.1.6 installation documentation for your platform.

Intended Audience

This manual is intended for anyone who performs system administration tasks for the Oracle Internet Directory. You should be familiar with either the UNIX operating system or the Microsoft Windows NT 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 platform-independent.

How This Book Is Organized

This book contains the chapters and appendixes listed below. Oracle Corporation encourages you to read the conceptual and other introductory material presented in Part I before attempting installation and maintenance.

Part I: Getting Started

Part I provides an overview of the product and its features, a conceptual foundation necessary to configure and manage a directory, instructions for starting a directory server, and an introduction to the various administration tools. Specific chapters and their descriptions are:

Chapter 1	Provides an introductory overview of directories, LDAP, and Oracle Internet Directory features.
Chapter 2	Gives an overview of online directories and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). Provides conceptual descriptions of directory entries, object classes, schemas, distributed directories, security, and National Language Support. This chapter also discusses Oracle Internet Directory architecture, and provides suggestions for further reading.
Chapter 3	Discusses how to prepare your directory for running Oracle Internet Directory tools, loading data, and making directory configurations. It tells you how to start and stop OID Monitor and instances of Oracle Directory Server and Oracle Directory Replication Server. It also discusses the need to reset the default security configuration installed with Oracle Internet Directory.
Chapter 4	Explains how to use the various Oracle Internet Directory administration tools: Oracle Directory Manager, command line tools, bulk tools, Catalog Management tool, and OID Password Utility

Part II: Managing Oracle Internet Directory

Part II guides you through the tasks required to configure and maintain Oracle Internet Directory. Specific chapters and their descriptions are:

Chapter 5	Provides instructions for running the Oracle Internet Directory processes, including connect instructions and detailed charts of configuration parameters
Chapter 6	Explains how to administer the Oracle Internet Directory schema
Chapter 7	Explains how to view, add, and modify entries
Chapter 8	Introduces and explains how to configure the features of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
Chapter 9	Explains how to control access to the directory
Chapter 10	Explains replication--installing it the first time, and installing new nodes into an environment with replication already installed
Chapter 11	Discusses National Language Support (NLS) as used by Oracle Internet Directory

Part III: Deploying Oracle Internet Directory

Part III discusses deployment considerations. Specific chapters and their descriptions are:

Chapter 12	Gives guidelines for capacity planning an Oracle Internet Directory installation
Chapter 13	Gives guidelines for tuning an Oracle Internet Directory installation
Chapter 14	Discusses the high availability and failover features and deployment guidelines for Oracle Internet Directory

Part IV: Appendixes

Appendix A	Provides syntax, usage notes, and examples for LDAP Data Interchange Format and LDAP command line tools
Appendix B	Describes an alternate method of adding a node to a replicated directory system if the directory is very large
Appendix C	Lists possible failures and error codes and their probable causes
Appendix D	Describes and explains how to use Oracle Wallet Manager
Appendix E	Describes the format (syntax) of Access Control Information Items(ACIs)
Appendix F	Lists schema elements supported in Oracle Internet Directory

Related Oracle Documents

For related information, refer to the following:

• Online help available through Oracle Directory Manager

• Oracle8i documentation set

  More Information: For non-Oracle material about LDAP, see "Further Reading".

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