Oracle Internet Directory Administrator's Guide Release 2.1.1 Part Number A86101-01 |
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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 book 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 operating system-independent.
This book contains the chapters and appendixes listed in this section. Oracle Corporation encourages you to read the conceptual and other introductory material presented in Part I before attempting installation and maintenance.
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:
Part II guides you through the tasks required to configure and maintain Oracle Internet Directory. Specific chapters and their descriptions are:
Part III discusses deployment considerations. Specific chapters and their descriptions are:
Provides syntax, usage notes, and examples for LDAP Data Interchange Format and LDAP command line tools. |
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Appendix B, "Adding a DSA Using the Database Copy Procedure" |
Describes an alternate method of adding a node to a replicated directory system if the directory is very large. |
Describes and explains how to use Oracle Wallet Manager to create and manage wallets and certificates. |
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Describes the format (syntax) of Access Control Information Items(ACIs). |
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Lists schema elements supported in Oracle Internet Directory. |
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Appendix F, "Migrating Data from Other LDAP-Compliant Directories" |
Explains the steps to migrate data from LDAP v3-compatible directories into Oracle Internet Directory. |
Lists possible failures and error codes and their probable causes |
For related Oracle information, refer to the following:
For more information about concepts discussed in this book, see the books and online articles below. Most of these entries also contain references to other publications.
Chadwick, David. Understanding X.500 The Directory. Thomson Computer Press, 1996. This book is now out of print, but is available online at: http://www.salford.ac.uk/its024/Version.Web/Contents.htm
Hodges, Jeff, Staff Scientist, Oblix, Inc., http://www.kingsmountain.com/ldapRoadmap.shtml
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.
Kosiur, Dave, LDAP: "The next-generation directory?," SunWorld Online, October 1997.
Radicati, Sara, X.500 Directory Services, Technology and Deployment, International Thomson Computer Press, 1994.
University of Michigan LDAP Repository, http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/index.html
This manual uses the following conventions:
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