OpenDS is a directory server entirely written in java and fully compliment with LDAP protocol version 3.The main features of OpenDS are
- OpenDS is a open Source Directory server
- OpenDS is simple to install and configure.
- OpenDS contains rich features and provides excellent performance
- You can extend OpenDS to add custom capabilities.
- You can easily embed OpenDS in your own application or test framework.
In this article, we will see how we can configure OpenDS in Rhel5.
Download the OpenDS zip file from Here
Once you got the Zip file, extract to a location. Go to the extracted location and in bin directory execute the command
. /setup
A GUI interface will start. The Configuration proceeds in the following,
Click Next .In The Next screen select the Host Name ,LDAP Listener port , Administration Connector Port and Password.The LDAP Listener Port is 389.In most cases it is taken as 10389 , since any port opened above the 1024 can be restarted by any user.If the port is below 1024,then some of the actions on these ports may be done only by root user.The administration connector port is chosen as 4444 by default.Enter the Password and remember since this will be used when we connect to control panel to perform operations on server.
In the Next screen , Select whether this is a standalone server or it is a replication server.In a replication server topology when one server goes down the other server will be available and provides the support to application.Select the Standalone Server.
In the next screen , select the Directory Data Information.You can use the default one "dc=example,dc=com".
In the next screen , you will be shown with all the configurations.Check them and if they are OK,click the Finish.
It takes a few minutes for configuring the server and directory data.Once every thing goes fine ,you will see the below screen.Click the Control Panal and enter the password that we configured previously.You will shown a screen with the Directory Data.We can add users, groups in this screen.
By This we completed the configuration of OpenDS server.
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