Notes on DSEE and DS products Directory Server Help Desk

Wednesday Jan 21, 2009

Save time and effort managing your 6.x DSEE on *nix platforms from the command line.  Use the "sourcing" capacity of your shell to quickly append the paths and environment variables you need to manage your DS's quickly from the command line.

 Any production administrator for the 6.x DSEE shoould have a complete understanding of managing their DS's through the dsadm and dsconf command lines.  There are a number of other helpful command line tools and utilities needed to manage the 6.x DSEE.  This article provides a quick and easy way to set your path, man page paths and settings, as well as debugging flags in a script you can "source" on demand from a new shell.

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Saturday Jun 14, 2008

Pay attention to the "Distribution Type" when downloading the directory server from Sun Downloads and Sunsolve!  Understand the differences between the Zip and Native Pkg versions of the product BEFORE YOU ATTEMPT to install, patch, or upgrade the product.[Read More]

Wednesday May 28, 2008

How to get the 6.3 zip distribution installed on windows, includes setup for the DSCC web application using the Sun Java Application Server.[Read More]