Administration Utilities

Sun Directory Services is supplied with a complete set of tools for administering the directory service software and the directory content, including monitoring and statistics. The tasks that you can perform with these commands are described in "Data Management", and "Directory Maintenance".

A generic data loading utility, dsimport, is also provided. It converts any text database, including NIS tables, to LDAP objects using a configurable mapping mechanism. For details on dsimport, refer to Chapter 5, Loading and Maintaining Directory Information.

Equally, you can back up the directory information base by exporting its contents to a file using the dsexport utility.