Preface

The Oracle Internet Directory Installation Guide describes how to install the Oracle Internet Directory product.

This preface contains these topics:

• Audience

• Organization

• Related Documentation

• Conventions

Audience

This release of Oracle Internet Directory Installation Guide is for anyone responsible for the installation of the Oracle Internet Directory, Release 2.1.1 on AIX-Based Systems, Compaq Tru64 UNIX, HP 9000 Series HP-UX, Linux Intel, Solaris Intel, and Sun SPARC Solaris. This Oracle Internet Directory installation is bundled with Oracle9i Application Server, Release 1.0.2.1.

This guide assumes that you are already familiar with your operating system. Use the Oracle Universal Installer to install Oracle Internet Directory.

Organization

This document contains:

Chapter 1, "System Requirements"

This chapter describes the requirements for installing Oracle Internet Directory on AIX-Based Systems, Compaq Tru64 UNIX, HP 9000 Series HP-UX, Linux Intel, Solaris Intel, and Sun SPARC Solaris and any restrictions with this release.

Chapter 2, "Pre-Installation"

This chapter explains how to prepare your system for installing Oracle Internet Directory.

Chapter 3, "Installation"

This chapter describes how to start the Oracle Universal Installer and install Oracle Internet Directory on your system.

Chapter 4, "Post-Installation"

After completing the Oracle Universal Installer session, you must perform certain post-installation steps and configure Oracle8i. This chapter describes the required steps, as well as some optional ones.

Related Documentation

For more information, see the following documentation:

• Oracle Internet Directory Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Internet Directory Application Developer's Guide

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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, especially:
  • http://www.ietf.org for the IETF home page

  • http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ldapext-charter.html for the ldapext charter and LDAP drafts)

  • http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/
ldup-charter.html for the LDUP charter and drafts

  • http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2254.txt, "The String Representation of LDAP Search Filters"

  • http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1823.txt, "The LDAP Application Program Interface"

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

Conventions

This section describes the conventions used in the text and code examples of this documentation set. It describes:

• Conventions in Text

• Conventions in Code Examples

Conventions in Text

We use various conventions in text to help you identify special terms. The following table describes those conventions and provides examples of their use.

Convention	Meaning	Example
Bold	Bold typeface indicates terms that are defined in the text.	The C datatypes such as ub4, sword, or OCINumber are valid. When you specify this clause, you create an index-organized table.
Italics	Italic typeface indicates book titles or emphasis.	Oracle8i Concepts Ensure that the recovery catalog and target database do not reside on the same disk.
UPPERCASE MONOSPACE (FIXED-WIDTH FONT)	Uppercase monospace typeface indicates elements supplied by the system. Such elements include parameters, privileges, datatypes, RMAN keywords, SQL keywords, SQL*Plus or utility commands, packages and methods, as well as system-supplied column names, database objects and structures, usernames, and roles.	You can specify this clause only for a NUMBER column. You can back up the database by using the BACKUP command. Query the TABLE_NAME column in the USER_TABLES data dictionary view. Use the DBMS_STATS.GENERATE_STATS procedure.
lowercase monospace (fixed-width font)	Lowercase monospace typeface indicates executables, filenames, directory names, and sample user-supplied elements. Such elements include computer and database names, net service names, and connect identifiers, as well as user-supplied database objects and structures, column names, packages and classes, usernames and roles, program units, and parameter values. Note: Some programmatic elements use a mixture of UPPERCASE and lowercase. Enter these elements as shown.	Enter sqlplus to open SQL*Plus. The password is specified in the orapwd file. Back up the datafiles and control files in the /disk1/oracle/dbs directory. The department_id, department_name, and location_id columns are in the hr.departments table. Set the QUERY_REWRITE_ENABLED initialization parameter to true. Connect as oe user. The JRepUtil class implements these methods.
lowercase monospace (fixed-width font) italic	Lowercase monospace italic font represents placeholders or variables.	You can specify the parallel_clause. Run Uold_release.SQL where old_release refers to the release you installed prior to upgrading.

Conventions in Code Examples

Code examples illustrate SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, or other command-line statements. They are displayed in a monospace (fixed-width) font and separated from normal text as shown in this example:

SELECT username FROM dba_users WHERE username = 'MIGRATE';

The following table describes typographic conventions used in code examples and provides examples of their use.

Convention	Meaning	Example
[ ]	Brackets enclose one or more optional items. Do not enter the brackets.	DECIMAL (digits [ , precision ])
{ }	Braces enclose two or more items, one of which is required. Do not enter the braces.	{ENABLE | DISABLE}
|	A vertical bar represents a choice of two or more options within brackets or braces. Enter one of the options. Do not enter the vertical bar.	{ENABLE | DISABLE} [COMPRESS | NOCOMPRESS]
...	Horizontal ellipsis points indicate either: That we have omitted parts of the code that are not directly related to the example A series in the code	CREATE TABLE ... AS subquery; SELECT col1, col2, ... , coln FROM employees;
. . .	Vertical ellipsis points indicate that we have omitted several lines of code not directly related to the example.
Other notation	You must enter symbols other than brackets, braces, vertical bars, and ellipsis points as shown.	acctbal NUMBER(11,2); acct CONSTANT NUMBER(4) := 3;
Italics	Italicized text indicates placeholders or variables for which you must supply particular values.	CONNECT SYSTEM/system_password DB_NAME = database_name
UPPERCASE	Uppercase typeface indicates elements supplied by the system. We show these terms in uppercase in order to distinguish them from terms you define. Unless terms appear in brackets, enter them in the order and with the spelling shown. However, because these terms are not case sensitive, you can enter them in lowercase.	SELECT last_name, employee_id FROM employees; SELECT * FROM USER_TABLES; DROP TABLE hr.employees;
lowercase	Lowercase typeface indicates programmatic elements that you supply. For example, lowercase indicates names of tables, columns, or files. Note: Some programmatic elements use a mixture of UPPERCASE and lowercase. Enter these elements as shown.	SELECT last_name, employee_id FROM employees; sqlplus hr/hr CREATE USER mjones IDENTIFIED BY ty3MU9;