This chapter covers features that have been deprecated or removed from Directory Server Enterprise Edition component products. This chapter also covers features that are susceptible to removal, and functionality that is susceptible to deprecation for Directory Server Enterprise Edition component products.
This chapter includes the following sections:
Classifications of interface stability are provided per manual page entry in Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 Man Page Reference.
In Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0, support for the following platforms is removed:
Windows 2000
Red Hat Advanced Server 3.0
J2SE platform 1.4
SUSE 9
Solaris 10 x86 32–bit
Native package installation for Windows
Native package installation for Red Hat
Native package installation for HP-UX
Native package installation is supported only for the Solaris operating system.
If you have Directory Server Enterprise Edition installed on a platform that is no more supported in version 7.0, upgrade your operating system to the version mentioned in the table below:
Previous Operating System Version |
Minimum Operating System Version Required to Install 7.0 |
---|---|
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 x86 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 x86 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 x64 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 x64 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 32–bit |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 32-bit |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 x64 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 x64 |
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server |
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server |
Hewlett Packard HP-UX 11.11 |
Hewlett Packard HP-UX 11.23 |
See Operating System Requirements for details of the supported operating systems.
System virtualization is a technology that enables multiple operating system (OS) instances to execute independently on shared hardware. Functionally, software deployed to an OS hosted in a virtualized environment is generally unaware that the underlying platform has been virtualized. Sun performs testing of its Sun products on selected system virtualization and OS combinations to help validate that the Sun products continue to function on properly sized and configured virtualized environments as they do on non-virtualized systems. For information about Sun support for Sun products in virtualized environments, see System Virtualization Support in Sun Java System Products.
For this release, Sun Microsystems supports any OS running on the VMware technology provided that the OS is already supported natively for the Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 software. Sun Microsystems does not certify every combination of OS and hardware, but relies on the underlying VMware technology implementation. Production deployment of the Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 software on the VMware technology is not recommended.
For details on supported hardware platforms for this release of Directory Server Enterprise Edition, see Hardware Requirements.
For details on supported operating systems and OS versions for this release of Directory Server Enterprise Edition, see Operating System Requirements.
Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 supports Logical Domains, (LDoms), on the SPARC platform for Solaris 10 Update 3 and later versions. For more information about LDoms, see the Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.0.1 Administration Guide.
Installation of Identity Synchronization for Windows in a virtualized environment is not supported.
The following Directory Server Enterprise Edition components are removed in this release:
Directory Editor
Agent for Sun Cluster support
Sun Java Web Console (Lockhart)
This section describes changes in the behavior of the Directory Service Control Center (DSCC)
The DSCC is now supported on Sun Web Server 7, GlassFish 2.1, and BEA WebLogic platforms.
The DSCC is now available in internationalized versions.
The DSCC is no longer supported on Sun Java Web Console. (Only manual WAR-file deployment of the DSCC is supported on Sun Java Web Console).
This section lists the features that have been removed or deprecated in this release and also mentions the features or commands that might be removed in the next release:
In the password policy, the DS5-compatible-mode interoperability mode is deprecated. In this version, you must use the DS6–mode interoperability mode.
Some version 5.2 commands are removed in Directory Server 7.0, as described in Command Line Changes in Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 Upgrade and Migration Guide
The following legacy scripts have been replaced with the commands:
Legacy Script |
New Command |
start-slapd |
dsadm start |
ldif2db |
dsadm import |
db2ldif |
dsadm export |
bak2db |
dsadm restore |
db2bak |
dsadm archive |
restart-slapd |
dsadm restart |
stop-slapd |
dsadm stop |
For more information, see Command Line Changes in Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 Upgrade and Migration Guide.
Before migrating a replicated server topology, review Chapter 5, Migrating a Replicated Topology, in Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 Upgrade and Migration Guide.
When you create a Directory Server instance, password policy is configured initially backwards-compatible. After upgrading, you should change the compatibility mode to enable richer password policy configuration. Directory Server manages the conversion. In a future release, the backwards-compatible password policy configuration might be removed.
When you create a Directory Server instance, support for the modify DN operation is disabled. After upgrading all the server instances in your replication topology, the modify DN operation can be replicated properly. At that point, you can enable support for the modify DN operation on each server instances. Use the dsconf set-server-prop moddn-enabled:on command for this purpose.
The modify DN operation is disabled during server instance creation to provide compatibility with version 5.2 instances.
The db-path suffix property (dsconf set-suffix-prop suffix-name db-path:/new/directory and dsconf create-suffix --db-path) is deprecated and might be removed in a future release. Use the db-path server property to store all the suffixes in a different directory than the instance directory.
Sun is currently working on resolving issues with the stability of the dsadm repack subcommand under stress. As a safety measure, Sun has temporarily disabled the dsadm repack subcommand for the 7.0 release.
Therefore, if you try to run dsadm repck, it will display the following message:
:[19/Oct/2009:11:51:50 +0200] - WARNING<99999> - conn=-1 op=-1 msgId=-1 - The repack function is temporarily disabled for the 7.0 release. |
Contact your support representative for more details.
Chapter 2, Changes to the Plug-In API Since Directory Server 5.2, in Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 Developer’s Guide details plug-in API changes. Interfaces identified there as deprecated might be removed in a future release.
Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 does not provide any changes to Identity Synchronization for Windows.
The current version for Identity Synchronization for Windows product is 6.0.
Before upgrading Identity Synchronization for Windows, read Chapter 8, Migrating Identity Synchronization for Windows, in Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 Upgrade and Migration Guide.
Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 does not provide any changes to Directory Server Resource Kit.
The LDAP utility manual pages on Sun Solaris systems do not document the version of the LDAP utilities ldapsearch, ldapmodify, ldapdelete, and ldapadd delivered with Directory Server Enterprise Edition. The commands might no longer be delivered separately on Solaris systems, but instead integrated with the commands provided by the operating system in a future version. See Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 Man Page Reference for the manual pages for the LDAP client tools.