This chapter describes the 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 covers the following topics:
Classifications of interface stability are provided per manual page entry in Oracle Fusion Middleware Man Page Reference for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition.
In Directory Server Enterprise Edition 11g Release 1 (11.1.1), support for the following platforms is removed:
Open Solaris 2009.06
Windows 2000
Red Hat Advanced Server 3.0
J2SE platform 1.4 and 1.5
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 for Solaris is still supported.
If you have Directory Server Enterprise Edition installed on a platform that is no longer supported, upgrade your operating system to the version outlined in the following table:
Previous Operating System Version |
Minimum Operating System Version Required to Install Directory Server Enterprise Edition 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) |
---|---|
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 x86 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 x86 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 x64 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 x64 or Oracle 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 R2 |
Microsoft Windows 2008 Server |
Microsoft Windows 2008 Server R2 |
Hewlett Packard HP-UX 11.11 |
Hewlett Packard HP-UX 11.23 |
Support for the following new platforms is provided in this release:
Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 Operating System for x64
Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 U3 Operating System for x64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 U3 Operating System for x64
For details of all the supported operating systems, see Operating System Requirements.
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. Some testing has been performed on selected system virtualization and OS combinations to help validate that the products continue to function on properly sized and configured virtualized environments as they do on non-virtualized systems.
For this release, support is provided for any OS running on the Oracle VM technology, provided that the OS is already supported natively for the Directory Server Enterprise Edition 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) software. Certification is not provided for every combination of OS and hardware, and support relies on the underlying Oracle VM technology implementation. Production deployment of the Directory Server Enterprise Edition 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) software on the Oracle VM technology has not been extensively tested.
For details about supported hardware platforms for this release of Directory Server Enterprise Edition, see Hardware Requirements.
For details about supported operating systems and OS versions for this release of Directory Server Enterprise Edition, see Operating System Requirements.
Directory Server Enterprise Edition 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) supports Logical Domains, (LDoms), on the SPARC platform for Solaris 10 Update 5. 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 no longer provided:
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 3.x, Tomcat 6.x, Oracle WebLogic, and Oracle iPlanet 7.0.9. Support for Tomcat 5.5 has been removed.
The DSCC is now available in internationalized versions.
The DSCC is no longer supported on Sun Java Web Console.
The DSCC is no longer supported on Sun Java System Application Server.
This section lists the features that have been removed or deprecated in this release and also mentions the features or commands that will 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 11g Release 1 (11.1.1), as described in Command Line Changes in Oracle Fusion Middleware Upgrade and Migration Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition
The following legacy scripts have been replaced with the new 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 Oracle Fusion Middleware Upgrade and Migration Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition.
Before migrating a replicated server topology, review Chapter 7, Migrating a Replicated Topology, in Oracle Fusion Middleware Upgrade and Migration Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition.
When you create a Directory Server instance in a replicated topology, password policy is configured initially backwards-compatible to assist with migrating the topology. After upgrading, you change the compatibility mode to enable richer password policy configuration. Directory Server manages the conversion. For more information, see Migrating a Deployment to Directory Server 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) in Oracle Fusion Middleware Administration Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition. 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.
This feature is provided for version 5.2 compatibility.
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.
Work is currently being done to resolve issues with the stability of the dsadm repack subcommand under stress. As a safety measure, the dsadm repack subcommand has been disabled temporarily for the 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) release.
If you run the dsadm repack subcommand, the following message is displayed:
:[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. |
The Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer’s Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) describes plug-in API changes. Interfaces identified there as deprecated might be removed in a future release.
This guide is no longer provided as part of the documentation set. All sample code files have also been removed from the product distribution. The Developer's Guide and the sample code files are bundled in an example.zip file that is available at http://www.oracle.com/technology/sample_code/products/oid/index.html.
Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) includes an update to Identity Synchronization for Windows. Identity Synchronization for Windows 6.0 SP1 is bundled with Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition.
Before upgrading Identity Synchronization for Windows, read Chapter 10, Migrating Identity Synchronization for Windows, in Oracle Fusion Middleware Upgrade and Migration Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition.
Directory Server Enterprise Edition 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) 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 that are delivered with Directory Server Enterprise Edition. The commands might no longer be delivered separately on Solaris systems, but instead integrated with the commands that are provided by the operating system in a future version. See Oracle Fusion Middleware Man Page Reference for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition for the manual pages for the LDAP client tools.