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Friday July 20, 2007

Configuring OpenDS with dsconfig

Like the Sun Java System Directory Server, the configuration in OpenDS is stored in an LDIF file rooted at "cn=config", and can be read and updated over LDAP. As of DSEE 6.0, the Directory Server also has a Web-based administration GUI, as well as a command-line utility named dsconf that can be used to manage the server configuration. For OpenDS, we don't yet have a widespread administration GUI, but starting with this week's build we have a new command-line tool named dsconfig that can be used to interact with the server configuration. On UNIX systems, you can find it at bin/dsconfig; on Windows, it's bat\dsconfig.bat.

Matt Swift (who has done most of the development of the dsconfig tool, and the underlying administration framework) has written a document that describes the dsconfig utility and gives an overview of how to use it. You can find that on our documentation wiki at https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/ConfiguringOpenDSUsingTheDsconfigTool.

Note that the documentation page for this tool also includes a section at the bottom with some known issues and potential usability problems that we intend to fix in the near future. However, we would also appreciate any feedback that you might have (e.g., problems that you've encountered or suggestions for improvement). If you find anything, feel free to open a new issue in our issue tracker (https://opends.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectIssues) or send an e-mail to dev@opends.dev.java.net.

Posted by cn_equals_directory_manager ( Jul 20 2007, 04:59:04 PM CDT ) Permalink

OpenDS 1.0.0-build002 is now available

I have just uploaded OpenDS 1.0.0-build002, built from revision 2441 of our source tree, to our weekly builds folder. The direct link to download the core server is https://opends.dev.java.net/files/documents/4926/62416/OpenDS-1.0.0-build002.zip. The direct link to download the DSML gateway is https://opends.dev.java.net/files/documents/4926/62417/OpenDS-1.0.0-build002-DSML.war.

I have also updated the archive that may be used to install OpenDS via Java Web Start. You may launch that using the URL http://builds.opends.org/install/QuickSetup.jnlp, or visit https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/OverviewOfTheQuickSetupTool for more information.

Detailed information about this build is available at http://builds.opends.org/weekly-builds/1.0.0-build002. Some of the changes that have been incorporated since OpenDS 1.0.0-build001 include:

Revision 2382 (Issue #1897) -- Update the verify-index and rebuild-index utilities to include a "--countErrors" option that can be used to return a non-zero exit code if any errors are encountered.
Revision 2391 (Issue #1771) -- Update the entry cache implementations to ensure that they flush all entries from a backend whenever it is taken offline.
Revision 2405 (Issue #1988) -- Implement a monitor provider that can be used to publish information about the client connections that are currently established.
Revision 2422 (Issue #1953) -- Update the Berkeley DB JE backend so that if a problem occurs in the database that causes a RunRecoveryException to be thrown, the server will provide notification in the form of administrative alerts.
Revision 2424 (Issue #339) -- Implement support for password history functionality. The password history can be maintained either based on the number of previous passwords, or the length of time the previous passwords have been retained, or both.
Revision 2428 (Issue #1603) -- Make updates to the way that the server attempts to register the Windows service on Windows Vista.
Revision 2430 -- When running the QuickSetup installer, if there are no backends found to replicate then disable the "Replicate Suffix" option and automatically select the "Create New Suffix" option.
Revision 2437 (Issue #90) -- Update the server to provide more complete support for the password policy control as defined in draft-behera-ldap-password-policy.
Revision 2438 -- Update the graphical tools to use the term "Base DN" instead of "Suffix".
Revision 2439 -- Update the server so that the set of alert handlers are configurable rather than always using a hard-coded JMX alert handler.
Revision 2441 -- Expose the dsconfig tool in the Directory Server build.

Posted by cn_equals_directory_manager ( Jul 20 2007, 04:49:35 PM CDT ) Permalink