Monday November 20, 2006
Monday November 20, 2006 Installing OpenDS Made Easier
I may be a bit biased, but I've never considered OpenDS all that hard to install or configure. Since the end of July, it's been possible to download and unpack a weekly build or check out and build the code for yourself, and for the last couple of weeks we've made our daily builds available. Today, we're debuting a new installation and setup mechanism that takes it one step further.It's still possible to download our latest weekly build (you can get build 017 here), unzip it and run the setup program. However, if you do that, you'll probably notice that it's a graphical program rather than text-mode (unless you're running without a GUI available, or unless you provide the "--cli" argument). It will display a panel that asks you for the listen port and root DN and password. It will then ask what you want to use as the base DN for the database and how you want to populate it. You can leave the database entry, only add the base entry, import data from an LDIF, or generate any number of sample entries. It will then configure and optionally start the server.
But what's even better is that it's no longer necessary to download and unzip the build. Instead, we have a new installer based on Java Web Start technology that allows you to install the server by clicking a link in your browser. To give it a shot, follow this link. For a detailed description of what you'll see, check out the new QuickSetup guide that gives you a blow-by-blow description of the process with screen shots.
If you're reading the documentation, you might also come across our new Quick Reference Guide that gives you a basic summary of how to do a lot of common tasks in the server, complete with a number of sample usages for the command-line tools. We've also got a Command Line Usage Guide that provides complete usage information for all of the utilities that we provide with the server. It still needs some work, but it's a lot better than the nothing that we had before in this area before.
A big thanks and congratulations should go out to Brian Ehret and Josu Vergara-Lecue for putting the new graphical tools together and for putting up with all my complaining while it was under construction, and for the rest of the team for helping out with suggestions and testing.
Posted by cn_equals_directory_manager ( Nov 20 2006, 11:30:39 PM CST ) Permalink
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