Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 - Chapter 1 Introduction; Overview of Directory Server Management

Overview of Directory Server Management
Chapter 1 Introduction 23
Chapter 1
Introduction
This chapter provides a brief overview of the configuration and administration
utilities provided to manage the Red Hat Directory Server (Directory Server).
This chapter is divided into the following sections:
• Overview of Directory Server Management (page 23)
• Directory Server Configuration (page 24)
• Directory Server Instance File Reference (page 24)
• Migrating Directory Server (page 24)
• Using Directory Server Command-Line Utilities (page 25)
• Using Directory Server Command-Line Scripts (page 25)
Overview of Directory Server Management
Directory Server is based on an open-systems server protocol called the
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). The Directory Server is a robust,
scalable server designed to manage large scale directories to support an
enterprise-wide directory of users and resources, extranets, and e-commerce
applications over the Internet. The Directory Server runs as the ns-slapd process
or service on your machine. The server manages the directory databases and
responds to client requests.