Oracle Fusion Middleware Administration Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition

Example of a Pointer CoS

The following command creates a pointer CoS definition entry that has the cosPointerDefinition object class. This definition entry uses the CoS template entry that is stated in the example in the previous section to share a common postal code among all entries in the ou=People,dc=example,dc=com tree.


$ ldapmodify -a -h host1 -p 1389 -D cn=admin,cn=Administrators,cn=config -w -
dn: cn=pointerCoS,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
objectclass: top
objectclass: LDAPsubentry
objectclass: cosSuperDefinition
objectclass: cosPointerDefinition
cosTemplateDn: cn=ZipTemplate,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
cosAttribute: postalCode

The CoS template entry (cn=ZipTemplate,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com ) supplies the value stored in its postalCode attribute to all entries located under the ou=People,dc=example,dc=com suffix. If you search for any entry that does not have a postal code in the same subtree, you will see the value of the generated attribute:


$ ldapsearch -h host1 -p 1389 -D cn=admin,cn=Administrators,cn=config -w - \
 -b "ou=People,dc=example,dc=com" -s sub "(cn=*Jensen)"
dn: cn=Babs Jensen,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
cn: Babs Jensen
...
postalCode: 95054