Populating the Server with Additional Profiles

Use ldapclient with the genprofile option to create an LDIF representation of a configuration profiles, based on the attributes specified. The profile you create can then be loaded into an LDAP server to be used as the client profile, which can be downloaded by the client using ldapclient init.

Refer to ldapclient(1M) for information on using ldapclient genprofile.

The following is an example of how to populate the server with additional profiles using ldapclient.

Example 15–3 How to populate the server with additional profiles

1. Become superuser,

2. Use ldapclient with the genprofile command.

   # ldapclient genprofile -a profileName=myprofile \

   -a defaultSearchBase=dc=west,dc=example,dc=com \

   -a "defaultServerList=192.168.0.0 192.168.0.1:386" \

   > myprofile.ldif

3. Upload the new profile to the server.

   # ldapadd –h 192.168.0.0 —D “cn=directory manager” —f myprofile.ldif