The following are requirements for an Oracle Solaris client to use LDAP as a naming service:
The client's domain name must be served by the LDAP server.
The name service switch must point to LDAP for the required services.
The client must be configured with all the parameters that define its behavior.
ldap_cachemgr must be running on the client.
At least one server for which a client is configured must be running.
The ldapclient utility performs all of the listed configuration steps except for starting the server. This chapter shows examples of how to use the ldapclient utility to set up an LDAP client and use the various other LDAP utilities to get information about an LDAP client.