The Oracle Fusion Middleware Deployment Planning Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) contains the information that you need to plan a directory service deployment. This guide describes the initial decisions that you need to make on issues such as data types, access control, and sizing. It also provides high-level examples and strategies that you can use for the specific requirements of your enterprise.
This guide is primarily intended for deployment architects and business planners responsible for the analysis and design of directory service deployments. This guide is also useful for system integrators and other people responsible for the design and implementation of enterprise applications.
This guide assumes that you are familiar with the basic concepts of LDAP directory servers and that you have read these documents:
Oracle Fusion Middleware Release Notes for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition
Oracle Fusion Middleware Evaluation Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition
This guide is based on a solution life cycle that describes the various phases of deployment planning.
Part I provides an introduction to Directory Server Enterprise Edition and explains the steps involved in planning a deployment (solution life cycle).
Part II describes the technical requirements analysis that must be performed before you can begin drawing up a logical deployment architecture. Technical requirements analysis requires an understanding of the business domain, business objectives, and the underlying system technology.
Part III describes how to create logical architectures for Directory Server Enterprise Edition deployments. It also provides sample logical architectures based on typical Directory Server Enterprise Edition deployment scenarios.
Part IV discusses specialized deployment topics including the use of LDAP-based naming services on the Solaris Operating System, Identity Synchronization for Windows, and the deployment of a virtual directory.
This documentation set explains how to use Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition to evaluate, design, deploy, and administer directory services. In addition, it shows how to develop client applications for Directory Server Enterprise Edition. The Directory Server Enterprise Edition documentation set is available at http://docs.sun.com/coll/1819.3.
The following table lists the documents that make up the Directory Server Enterprise Edition documentation set.
Table P–1 Directory Server Enterprise Edition Documentation
Document Title |
Contents |
---|---|
Oracle Fusion Middleware Release Notes for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition |
Contains the latest information about Directory Server Enterprise Edition, including known problems. |
Oracle Fusion Middleware Documentation Center for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition |
Contains links to key areas of the documentation set that help you to quickly locate the key information. |
Oracle Fusion Middleware Evaluation Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition |
Introduces the key features of this release. Demonstrates how these features work and what they offer in the context of a deployment that you can implement on a single system. |
Oracle Fusion Middleware Deployment Planning Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition |
Explains how to plan and design highly available, highly scalable directory services based on Directory Server Enterprise Edition. Presents the basic concepts and principles of deployment planning and design. Discusses the solution life cycle, and provides high-level examples and strategies to use when planning solutions based on Directory Server Enterprise Edition. |
Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition |
Explains how to install the Directory Server Enterprise Edition software. Shows how to configure the installed software and verify the configured software. |
Oracle Fusion Middleware Upgrade and Migration Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition |
Provides upgrade instructions to upgrade the version 6 installation and migration instructions to migrate version 5.2 installations. |
Oracle Fusion Middleware Administration Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition |
Provides command-line instructions for administering Directory Server Enterprise Edition. For hints and instructions about using the Directory Service Control Center, DSCC, to administer Directory Server Enterprise Edition, see the online help provided in DSCC. |
Oracle Fusion Middleware Reference for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition |
Introduces technical and conceptual foundations of Directory Server Enterprise Edition. Describes its components, architecture, processes, and features. |
Oracle Fusion Middleware Man Page Reference for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition |
Describes the command-line tools, schema objects, and other public interfaces that are available through Directory Server Enterprise Edition. Individual sections of this document can be installed as online manual pages. |
Oracle Fusion Middleware Troubleshooting Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition |
Provides information for defining the scope of the problem, gathering data, and troubleshooting the problem areas by using various tools. |
Sun Java System Identity Synchronization for Windows 6.0 Deployment Planning Guide |
Provides general guidelines and best practices for planning and deploying Identity Synchronization for Windows. |
Sun Java System Identity Synchronization for Windows 6.0 Installation and Configuration Guide |
Describes how to install and configure Identity Synchronization for Windows. |
Installation Instructions for Identity Synchronization for Windows 6.0 Service Pack 1 |
Provides installation instructions for Identity Synchronization for Windows 6.0 SP1. |
Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer’s Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition 11 g Release 1 (11.1.1) |
Shows how to develop directory client applications with the tools and APIs that are provided as part of Directory Server Enterprise Edition. This guide is not provided as part of the documentation set, but is bundled, with all sample code files, in an example.zip file, available at . |
For an introduction to Directory Server Enterprise Edition, review the following documents in the order in which they are listed.
The SLAMD Distributed Load Generation Engine is a Java application that is designed to stress test and analyze the performance of network-based applications. This application was originally developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. to benchmark and analyze the performance of LDAP directory servers. SLAMD is available as an open source application under the Sun Public License, an OSI-approved open source license. To obtain information about SLAMD, go to http://www.slamd.com/. SLAMD is also available as a java.net project. See https://slamd.dev.java.net/.
Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) supports accessing the Directory Server using LDAP and DSML v2 from Java applications. For information about JNDI, see http://java.sun.com/products/jndi/. The JNDI Tutorial contains detailed descriptions and examples of how to use JNDI. This tutorial is at http://java.sun.com/products/jndi/tutorial/.
Identity Synchronization for Windows uses Message Queue with a restricted license. Message Queue documentation is available at http://docs.sun.com/coll/1307.6.
Identity Synchronization for Windows works with Microsoft Windows password policies.
Information about password policies for Windows 2003, is available in the Microsoft documentation online.
Information about the Microsoft Certificate Services Enterprise Root certificate authority, is available in the Microsoft support documentation online.
Information about configuring LDAP over SSL on Microsoft systems, is available in the Microsoft support documentation online.
Directory Server Enterprise Edition does not provide any files that you can redistribute.
This section explains the default paths used in documentation, and provides locations of commands on different operating systems and deployment types.
The table in this section describes the default paths that are used in this document. For complete descriptions of the files installed, see Chapter 1, Directory Server Enterprise Edition File Reference, in Oracle Fusion Middleware Reference for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition.
Table P–2 Default Paths
The table in this section provides locations for commands that are used in Directory Server Enterprise Edition documentation. To learn more about each of the commands, see the relevant man pages.
Table P–3 Command Locations
Command |
Native Package Distribution |
Zip Distribution |
---|---|---|
cacaoadm |
/usr/sbin/cacaoadm |
Solaris, Linux, HP—UX — install-path/bin/cacaoadm |
Windows - install-path\bin\cacaoadm.bat |
||
certutil |
/usr/sfw/bin/certutil |
install-path/bin/certutil |
install-path/bin/dpadm |
install-path/bin/dpadm |
|
install-path/bin/dpconf |
install-path/bin/dpconf |
|
install-path/bin/dsadm |
install-path/bin/dsadm |
|
install-path/bin/dsccmon |
install-path/bin/dsccmon |
|
install-path/bin/dsccreg |
install-path/bin/dsccreg |
|
install-path/bin/dsccsetup |
install-path/bin/dsccsetup |
|
install-path/bin/dsconf |
install-path/bin/dsconf |
|
install-path/bin/dsmig |
install-path/bin/dsmig |
|
install-path/bin/dsutil |
install-path/bin/dsutil |
|
install-path/bin/entrycmp |
install-path/bin/entrycmp |
|
install-path/bin/fildif |
install-path/bin/fildif |
|
Not provided |
At the root of the unzipped zip distribution |
|
install-path/bin/insync |
install-path/bin/insync |
|
install-path/dsrk/bin/ldapsearch |
install-path/dsrk/bin/ldapsearch |
|
install-path/bin/repldisc |
install-path/bin/repldisc |
The following table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.
Table P–4 Typographic Conventions
Typeface |
Meaning |
Example |
---|---|---|
AaBbCc123 |
The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output |
Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% you have mail. |
AaBbCc123 |
What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output |
machine_name% su Password: |
aabbcc123 |
Placeholder: replace with a real name or value |
The command to remove a file is rm filename. |
AaBbCc123 |
Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized |
Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. A cache is a copy that is stored locally. Do not save the file. Note: Some emphasized items appear bold online. |
The following table shows the default UNIX system prompt and superuser prompt for shells that are included in the Solaris OS. Note that the default system prompt that is displayed in command examples varies, depending on the Solaris release.
Table P–5 Shell Prompts
Shell |
Prompt |
---|---|
Bash shell, Korn shell, and Bourne shell |
$ |
Bash shell, Korn shell, and Bourne shell for superuser |
# |
C shell |
machine_name% |
C shell for superuser |
machine_name# |
The following table explains symbols that might be used in this book.
Table P–6 Symbol Conventions
Symbol |
Description |
Example |
Meaning |
---|---|---|---|
[ ] |
Contains optional arguments and command options. |
ls [-l] |
The -l option is not required. |
{ | } |
Contains a set of choices for a required command option. |
-d {y|n} |
The -d option requires that you use either the y argument or the n argument. |
${ } |
Indicates a variable reference. |
${com.sun.javaRoot} |
References the value of the com.sun.javaRoot variable. |
- |
Joins simultaneous multiple keystrokes. |
Control-A |
Press the Control key while you press the A key. |
+ |
Joins consecutive multiple keystrokes. |
Ctrl+A+N |
Press the Control key, release it, and then press the subsequent keys. |
-> |
Indicates menu item selection in a graphical user interface. |
File -> New -> Templates |
From the File menu, choose New. From the New submenu, choose Templates. |
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