About This Guide


This Administration Guide offers an explanation on how to manage the iPlanet™ Directory Server Access Management Edition (DSAME) enterprises and how to administer the graphical user interface procedures. This preface contains the following sections:

• What You Are Expected to Know

• iPlanet Directory Server Access Management Edition Documentation Set

• Organization of This Guide

• Documentation Conventions Used in This Guide

• Related Information

  
  

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  Note

  Sun™ ONE Identity Server was previously known as iPlanet Directory Server Access Management Edition (DSAME). The product was renamed shortly before the launch of the product. The late renaming of this product has resulted in a situation where the new product name is not fully integrated into the shipping product. In particular, you will see the product referenced as DSAME within the product GUI and within the product documentation. For this release, please consider Directory Server Access Management Edition and iPlanet Directory Server Access Management Edition as interchangeable names for the same product.

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What You Are Expected to Know

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This book is considered the "second" manual in the documentation series provided with iPlanet Directory Server Access Management Edition. This guide is intended for use by IT professionals who manage access to their network through iPlanet servers and services. The functionality contained in iPlanet DSAME allows you to manage user data and enforce access policies throughout your enterprise. It's recommended that you understand directory server technologies, including Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), and have some experience with Java and eXtensible Markup Language (XML). Particularly, you should be familiar with iPlanet Directory Server and the documentation provided with that product.

iPlanet Directory Server Access Management Edition Documentation Set

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The Directory Server Access Management Edition documentation set contains the following titles:

• Installation and Configuration Guide describes iPlanet DSAME and provides details on how to plan and install the iPlanet DSAME on Solaris systems.

• Administration Guide (this guide) documents how to manage user and service data and customize the DSAME console.

• Programmer's Guide documents how to customize an iPlanet Directory Server Access Management Edition system for your organization.

• The Release Notes file gathers an assortment of information, including a description of what is new in this release, last minute installation notes, known problems and limitations, and how to report problems.

  
  

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  Note	Be sure to check the Directory Server Access Management Edition documentation web site for updates to the release notes and for revisions to the guides. Updated documents will be marked with the revision date. http://docs.iplanet.com /docs/manuals/dsame.html

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Organization of This Guide

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The Administration Guide (this guide) has two parts:

• Part 1, "DSAME Console Guide," explains the DSAME console and how to manage and configure user data, organization services and enterprise policies. It also includes procedures on how to navigate the graphical user interface and create DSAME objects.

• Part 2, "Attribute Reference Guide," explains each of the attributes contained within the default DSAME services. Information included is an attribute definition, default values and attribute type.

The table below lists and briefly describes the content of the Administration Guide.

Table 1    Administration Guide Chapters 

Chapter	Description
About This Guide	An outline of the DSAME documentation set and a description of the Administration Guide.
Part 1, "DSAME Console Guide"
Chapter 1 "Product Overview"	A brief explanation of DSAME concepts.
Chapter 2 "Service Management"	Managing and configuring DSAME services using the graphical user interface.
Chapter 3 "Policy Management"	Managing and configuring DSAME policies using the graphical user interface.
Chapter 4 "User Management"	Managing and configuring DSAME objects using the graphical user interface.
Chapter 5 "Authentication Options	A description of the DSAME authentication options and associated procedures.
Part 2, "Attribute Reference Guide"
Chapter 6 "Administration Attributes"	Definitions of DSAME's administration attributes.
Chapter 7 "Anonymous Authentication Attributes"	Definitions of DSAME's attributes associated with anonymous authentication.
Chapter 8 "Certificate Authentication Attributes"	Definitions of DSAME's attributes associated with certificate-based authentication.
Chapter 9 "Core Authentication Attributes"	Definitions of DSAME's attributes associated with the core authentication service.
Chapter 10 "LDAP Authentication Attributes"	Definitions of DSAME's attributes associated with LDAP authentication.
Chapter 11 "Membership Authentication Attributes"	Definitions of DSAME's attributes associated with membership authentication.
Chapter 12 "RADIUS Authentication Attributes"	Definitions of DSAME's attributes associated with RADIUS authentication.
Chapter 13 "SafeWord Authentication Attributes"	Definitions of DSAME's attributes associated with SafeWord authentication
Chapter 14 "Unix Authentication Attributes"	Definitions of DSAME's attributes associated with Unix authentication
Chapter 15 "Logging Attributes"	Definitions of DSAME's logging service attributes.
Chapter 16 "Naming Attributes"	Definitions of DSAME's naming service attributes.
Chapter 17 "Platform Attributes	Definitions of DSAME's platform service attributes.
Chapter 18 "Session Attributes"	Definitions of DSAME's session service attributes.
Chapter 19 "URL Policy Agent Attributes"	Definitions of the attributes associated with the URL Policy Agent.
Chapter 20 "User Attributes"	Definitions of DSAME's user attributes.
Index	Alphabetical index of the Administration Guide.

Documentation Conventions Used in This Guide

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In the iPlanet Directory Server Access Management Edition documentation, there are certain typographic and terminology conventions used to simplify discussion and to help you better understand the material. These conventions are described below.

Typographic Conventions

This book uses the following typographic conventions:

• Italic type is used within text for book titles, new terminology, emphasis, and words used in the literal sense.

• Monospace font is used for sample code and code listings, API and language elements (such as function names and class names), filenames, pathnames, directory names, HTML tags, and any text that must be typed on the screen.

• Italic serif font is used within code and code fragments to indicate variable placeholders. For example, the following command uses filename as a variable placeholder for an argument to the gunzip command:

  gunzip -d filename.tar.gz

Terminology

Below is a list of the general terms that are used in the iPlanet Directory Server Access Management Edition documentation set:

• DSAME refers to iPlanet Directory Server Access Management Edition and any installed instances of the iPlanet Directory Server Access Management Edition software.

• Policy and Management Services refers to the collective set of iPlanet Directory Server Access Management Edition components and software you have installed and running on a dedicated Web Server.

• Web Server that runs DSAME refers to the dedicated Web Server where the DSAME is installed.

• Directory Server refers to an installed instance of iPlanet Directory Server or Netscape™ Directory Server.

• DSAME_root is a variable placeholder for the home directory where you have installed iPlanet Directory Server Access Management Edition.

• Directory_Server_root is a variable placeholder for the home directory where you have installed iPlanet Directory Server.

• Web_Server_root is a variable placeholder for the home directory where you have installed iPlanet Web Server.

Related Information

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In addition to the documentation provided with iPlanet Directory Server Access Management Edition, you should be familiar with several other sets of documentation. Of particular interest are the iPlanet Directory Server, iPlanet Web Server, iPlanet Proxy Server, and iPlanet Certificate Management System documentation sets. This sections lists additional sources of information that can be used with iPlanet Directory Server Access Management Edition.

iPlanet Directory Server Documentation
You can find the iPlanet Directory Server documentation at the following site:

http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/directory.html

iPlanet Web Server Documentation
You can find the iPlanet Web Server documentation at the following site:

http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/enterprise.html

iPlanet Certificate Management System Documentation
You can find the iPlanet Certificate Management System documentation at the following site:

http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/cms.html

iPlanet Proxy Server Documentation
You can find the iPlanet Proxy Server documentation at the following site:

http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/proxy.html

Directory Server Developer Information
In addition to the Directory Server documentation, you can find information on Directory Server Access Management Edition, LDAP, the iPlanet Directory Server, and associated technologies at the following iPlanet developer sites:

http://developer.iplanet.com/tech/directory/

http://www.iplanet.com/downloads/developer/

Other iPlanet Product Documentation
Documentation for all iPlanet and Netscape servers and technologies can be found at the following web site:

http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/

iPlanet Technical Support
You can contact iPlanet Technical Support through the following location:

http://www.iplanet.com/support/