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Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition Troubleshooting Guide 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0) |
1. Overview of Troubleshooting Directory Server Enterprise Edition
2. Troubleshooting Installation and Migration Problems
3. Troubleshooting Replication
4. Troubleshooting Directory Proxy Server
5. Troubleshooting Directory Server Problems
6. Troubleshooting Data Management Problems
7. Troubleshooting Identity Synchronization for Windows
8. Troubleshooting DSCC Problems
9. Directory Server Error Log Message Reference
This Troubleshooting Guide shows you how to troubleshoot problems with Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition.
This guide is intended for advanced administrative users who are troubleshooting problems with Directory Server Enterprise Edition.
Before using this guide, you must be familiar with the following:
Directory Server functionality
Specifications for LDAP and related protocols, such as DSML v2
Internet and World Wide Web technologies
Review pertinent information in the Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition Release Notes.
Chapter 1, Overview of Troubleshooting Directory Server Enterprise Edition describes how to approach troubleshooting problems in Directory Server Enterprise Edition, including how to define the scope of the problem, generic data collection, troubleshooting tools, and a where to get more information.
Chapter 2, Troubleshooting Installation and Migration Problems provides information to help you troubleshoot installation and migration problems.
Chapter 3, Troubleshooting Replication provides information to help you troubleshoot problems with replication and contains a procedure to help you reinitialize your entire topology.
Chapter 4, Troubleshooting Directory Proxy Server provides information to help you troubleshoot problems with Directory Proxy Server.
Chapter 5, Troubleshooting Directory Server Problems provides information about how to troubleshoot general problems with Directory Server, including a crash, an unresponsive process, database problems, and memory leaks.
Chapter 6, Troubleshooting Data Management Problems provides information to help you troubleshoot data management problems, include operation failures and SSL problems.
Chapter 7, Troubleshooting Identity Synchronization for Windows provides information to help you troubleshoot problems you may encounter while using Identity Synchronization for Windows.
Chapter 8, Troubleshooting DSCC Problems contains information to help you troubleshoot problems with DSCC.
Chapter 9, Directory Server Error Log Message Reference lists messages logged by Directory Server that can serve as a good starting point for resolving common problems.
Chapter 10, Directory Proxy Server Error Log Message Reference lists messages logged by Directory Server that can serve as a good starting point for resolving common problems.
For consistency reasons, the same example data is used throughout this guide. Replace these values with the appropriate values for your system.
Table P-1 Default Values Used in Examples
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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://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E20295_01/index.htm.
The following table lists the documents that make up the Directory Server Enterprise Edition documentation set.
Table P-2 Directory Server Enterprise Edition Documentation
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For an introduction to Directory Server Enterprise Edition, review the following documents in the order in which they are listed.
Figure P-1 ODSEE Documentation Map
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://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/jndi/. The JNDI Tutorial contains detailed descriptions and examples of how to use JNDI. This tutorial is at http://download.oracle.com/javase/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 Directory Server Enterprise Edition Reference.
Table P-3 Default Paths
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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-4 Command Locations
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The following table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.
Table P-5 Typographic Conventions
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The following table shows the default UNIX system prompt and superuser prompt for shells that are included in the Oracle Solaris OS. Note that the default system prompt that is displayed in command examples varies, depending on the Oracle Solaris release.
Table P-6 Shell Prompts
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The following table explains symbols that might be used in this book.
Table P-7 Symbol Conventions
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See the following web sites for additional resources:
Training – Click the Sun link in the left navigation bar.
Oracle Technology Network offers a range of resources related to Oracle software:
Discuss technical problems and solutions on the ODSEE Discussion Forum and the Directory Services blog.
Get hands-on step-by-step tutorials with Oracle By Example.
Download ODSEE 11g Example Files.