About This Guide


The Administrator's Guide presents various deployment scenarios for iPlanet Directory Access Router (iDAR) and explains how to configure and maintain iDAR.

This preface has the following sections:

• Audience for This Guide

• What's in This Guide

• Conventions Used In This Guide

• Related Information

• Support

Audience for This Guide

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The iDAR Administrator's Guide is written for administrators who will configure and operate one or more iDARs. This guide assumes that you have the following background:

• A general understanding of the Internet and LDAP.

• A general understanding of iPlanet Directory Server 5.x and its administration. You should be able to read and modify directory data.

What's in This Guide

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The guide is organized into four parts:

• Part 1, "Introduction to iPlanet Directory Access Router"

• Part 2, "Console Based Administration"

• Part 3, "Command-Line Configuration"

• Part 4, "Appendixes"

Conventions Used In This Guide

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This section explains the conventions used in this book.

Monospaced font—This typeface is used for any text that appears on the computer screen or text that you should type. It is also used for filenames, functions, and examples.

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Note	Notes and Cautions mark important information. Make sure you read the information before continuing with a task.

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The greater than symbol (>) is used as a separator for successive menu selections. For example, Object > New > User means that you should pull down the Object menu, drag the mouse down to highlight New, and drag the mouse across to the New submenu in which you must select User.

Throughout this book you will see path references of the form:

<server-root>/idar-<hostname>/...

where <server-root> is the default installation directory and <hostname> is the name of the host machine in which iDAR is installed. For example, if the installation directory is /usr/iplanet/servers and the hostname of the machine is testmachine, the actual path would be:

/usr/iplanet/servers/idar-testmachine/. . .

All paths specified in this manual are in UNIX format. If you are using a Windows NT-based directory server, you should assume the NT equivalent file paths whenever UNIX file paths are shown in this guide.

Related Information

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In addition to this guide, the iDAR documentation set includes the following:

• iPlanet Directory Access Router Release Notes. The release notes contain important information available at the time of the release of iDAR. New features and enhancements, known problems, and other late-breaking issues are addressed here. Read this document before you begin using iDAR.

• iPlanet Directory Access Router Installation Guide. This guide contains procedures for installing iDAR plus requirements and tuning information.

The document set, including guides for deployment, installation, administration, and customization, for iPlanet Directory Server can be found at the following location: http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/directory.html

Other useful iPlanet information can be found at the following Internet locations:

• iPlanet release notes and other documentation:
  http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/

• iPlanet product status:
  http://www.iplanet.com/support/technical_resources/

• iPlanet Professional Services information:
  http://www.iplanet.com/services/professional_services_3_3.html

• iPlanet developer information:
  http://developer.iplanet.com/

• iPlanet learning solutions:
  http://www.iplanet.com/learning/index.html

• iPlanet product data sheets:
  http://www.iplanet.com/products/index.html

• iPlanet product technical support
  http://www.iplanet.com/support

Support

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Thank you for choosing iPlanet Directory Access Router. Before requesting assistance, please check the FAQs and technical notes at http://www.iplanet.com/support/online. If you have any questions, please visit Customer Service at http://www.iplanet.com/support.