Sometimes, you might need to make a suffix unavailable for maintenance, or to make its contents unavailable for security reasons. The action of disabling a suffix prevents the server from reading or writing the contents of the suffix in response to any client operations. When you disable a suffix, you no longer have access to that suffix, and the referral mode is automatically set to disabled.
You can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help.
Disable the suffix.
$ dsconf set-suffix-prop -h host -p port suffix-DN enabled:off |
You cannot disable a suffix on which replication is enabled because most properties of a replicated suffix are determined by the replication mechanism.
Enable the suffix.
$ dsconf set-suffix-prop -h host -p port suffix-DN enabled:on |