Edirectory Field Guide

eDirectory Field Guide Rick Killpack eDirectory Field Guide Copyright (c) 2006 by Rick Killpack All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher. ISBN (pbk): 1-59059-553-X Printed and bound in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Trademarked names may appear in this book. Rather than use a trademark symbol with every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use the names only in an editorial fashion and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Lead Editor: Jim Sumser Technical Reviewer: Kevin Fenn Editorial Board: Steve Anglin, Dan Appleman, Ewan Buckingham, Gary Cornell, Tony Davis, Jason Gilmore, Jonathan Hassell, Chris Mills, Dominic Shakeshaft, JimSumser Associate Publisher: Grace Wong Project Manager: Sofia Marchant Copy Edit Manager: Nicole LeClerc Copy Editor: Bill McManus Assistant Production Director: Kari Brooks-Copony Compositor: Dina Quan Proofreader: Dan Shaw Indexer: Valerie Perry Artist: Kari Brooks-Copony Cover Designer: Kurt Krames Manufacturing Director: Tom Debolski Distributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 233 Spring Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10013. Phone 1-800-SPRINGER, fax 201-348-4505, e-mail orders-ny@springer-sbm.com, or visit http://www.springeronline.com. For information on translations, please contact Apress directly at 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 219, Berkeley, CA 94710. Phone 510-549-5930, fax 510-549-5939, e-mail info@apress.com, or visit http://www.apress.com. The information in this book is distributed on an as is basis, without warranty. Although every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this work, neither the author(s) nor Apress shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this work. About the Author ... xi About the Technical Reviewer ... xiii Author s Note ... xv PART 1 ■ ■ ■ Installation and Migration ■CHAPTER 1 Installation ... 3 ■CHAPTER 2 Installing into an Existing Tree ... 25 ■CHAPTER 3 Migration Methodologies ... 39 PART 2 ■ ■ ■ Administration ■CHAPTER 4 Partition Operations ... 63 ■CHAPTER 5 Backup and Restore Operations ... 79 ■CHAPTER 6 Schema Administration ... 99 ■CHAPTER 7 LDAP ... 111 ■CHAPTER 8 Management and Monitoring Tools ... 131 PART 3 ■ ■ ■ Troubleshooting eDirectory ■CHAPTER 9 Troubleshooting with NDS iMonitor ... 145 ■CHAPTER 10 Common Command-Line Utilities ... 181 ■CHAPTER 11 Troubleshooting Common Issues ... 225 ■CHAPTER 12 Large-Scale Considerations ... 245 ■CHAPTER 13 Troubleshooting Security ... 267 ■APPENDIX Comparison of eDirectory Versions ... 277 ■INDEX ... 285 iii Contents at a Glance