5. Basic Information about Red Hat Directory Server

This is some basic information for using and managing Directory Server. The Directory Server information is explained in much more detail in the Administrator's Guide.
Starting and Stopping the Directory Server and Admin Server

The Directory Server and Admin Server instances are started and stopped using basic service command line tools. For example, on Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 

service dirsrv-admin start
service dirsrv start
Running just service dirsrv start starts all instances of the Directory Server on the host machine. To start a single instance, use the name of the instance in the command: 
service dirsrv start example
Starting the Directory Server Console

To start the Directory Server Console, run the redhat-idm-console command. 

redhat-idm-console
It is also possible to specify the user to log into the Console as using the -u and -w options and to give the URL to the Admin Server using the -a option. 
redhat-idm-console -u "cn=Directory Manager" -w secret -a http://ldap.example.com:9830
Default Port Numbers

These are the default port numbers for the Directory Server and Admin Server:

  • The standard LDAP port is 389.
  • The secure (SSL) LDAPS port is 636.
  • The Admin Server port is 9830.
Directory Server File Locations

Red Hat Directory Server 9.1 conforms to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standards. For more information on FHS, see the FHS homepage, http://www.pathname.com/fhs/. The files and directories installed with Directory Server are listed in the tables below for each supported platform.

Table 1. Basic Directory Locations

File or Directory Location
Log files /var/log/dirsrv/slapd-instance
Configuration files
/etc/dirsrv/slapd-instance
/var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-instance
Instance directory
/usr/lib/dirsrv/slapd-instance on 32-bit systems
/usr/lib64/dirsrv/slapd-instance on 64-bit systems
Database files /var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-instance/db
Certificate and key databases /etc/dirsrv/slapd-instance
Schema files /etc/dirsrv/slapd-instance/schema
Runtime files
/var/lock/dirsrv/slapd-instance
/var/run/dirsrv/
Tools
/usr/bin/
/usr/sbin/
UTF-8 and Language Support

Directory Server supports all international charactersets by default because directory data is stored in UTF-8. UTF-8 characters are fully supported for all DNs and DN components. Web services can be customized to display charactersets other than UTF-8, though UTF-8 and Latin-1 are the default for Directory Server web applications.

Directory Server can also use specified matching rules and collation orders based on language preferences in search operations.
The locales and charactersets supported by Directory Server are listed in more detail in Appendix D, "Internationalization," in the Administrator's Guide.