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Deleting Indexes
368 Netscape Directory Server Administrator’s Guide • August 2002
6.
The Delete Browsing Index dialog box appears displaying the status of the
index deletion. You can click on the Status Logs button to view the status of the
indexes deleted.
7.
Once the indexing is complete, click on Close to close the Delete Browsing
Index box.
Deleting Indexes From the Command Line
You can browsing index, or virtual list view (VLV) indexes using the
ldapdelete
command-line utility as follows:
• Delete an entire index entry or delete unwanted index types from an existing
index entry using the
ldapdelete
command-line utility.
• Generate the new set of indexes to be maintained by the server using the
db2index.pl
script.
The following sections describe the steps involved in deleting an index.
Deleting an Index Entry
Use the
ldapdelete
command-line utility to delete either the entire indexing entry
or the unwanted index types from an existing entry.
If you want to delete the indexes for a particular database, you remove your index
entry from the
cn=index,cn=
instanceName
,cn=ldbm
database,cn=plugins,cn=config
entry, where
cn=
instanceName
corresponds to
the name of the database.
To delete a default index, remove it from the
cn=default
indexes,cn=config,cn=ldbm database,cn=plugins,cn=config
entry.
For example, you want to delete presence, equality and substring indexes for the sn
attribute on the database named
Example1
.
You want to delete the following entry:
dn: cn=sn,cn=index,cn=Example1,cn=ldbm database,cn=plugins,cn=config
objectClass:top
objectClass:nsIndex
cn:sn
nsSystemIndex:false
nsIndexType:pres
nsIndexType:eq
nsIndexType:sub
nsMatchingRule:2.16.840.1.113730.3.3.2.3.1