Netscape NETSCAPE CONSOLE 6.0 - MANAGING SERVERS, Manual

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A Tour of Netscape Console
52 Managing Servers with Netscape Console • December 2001
The Administration Domain
An administration domain is a group of Netscape servers that share a user
directory for data management and authentication. A company might want to
create separate administration domains for each of its business sites. Each of these
domains could include the host computers used only by that business site.
Before you can create a new administration domain, you must be a member of the
Configuration Administrators group. If you are not a member of this group, you
must ask your Configuration Administrator to add you to it. For instructions on
adding a user to the Configuration Administrators group, see “To Add Users to the
Configuration Administrators Group” on page 100.
To Create an Administration Domain
1.
Open Netscape Console.
2.
From the Console menu, choose Create Administration Domain.
3.
In the Create Administration Domain dialog box, enter domain information:
Domain Name. Enter a name that helps you identify this domain. This can be a
fully qualified domain name such as
example.com
or a descriptive title such as
East Coast Sales.
User Directory Host. Specify the host machine on which the user directory for
this domain is located. Use the fully qualified domain name. For example,
east.example.com
.
User Directory Port. Enter the port number for the user directory you specified
above.
Secure Connection. Check this box if you want to connect to the user directory
using SSL. If you select this option, make sure that the user directory port
you’ve entered is already enabled for SSL communication.
Directory Subtree.
Enter the base DN of the user subtree in the directory.
Example:
o=example.com
Bind DN. Enter the distinguished name for a user who has full access
permission to the user directory. Example:
uid=jdoe, ou=people,
o=example.com
.
Bind Password. Enter the password for the user specified by the Bind DN.
Owner DN. Enter the distinguished name for the user who has administrative
control over this domain. By default, your DN is entered.