Netscape NETSCAPE DIRECTORY SERVER 6.1 - ADMINISTRATOR, Administrator'S Manual

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Creating and Maintaining Suffixes
80 Netscape Directory Server Administrator’s Guide • August 2002
Figure 3-1
A Sample Directory Tree with One Root Suffix
The
ou=people
suffix and all the entries and nodes below it might be stored in one
database, the
ou=groups
suffix on another database, and the
ou=contractors
suffix on yet another database.
This section describes creating suffixes on your Directory Server and associating
them with databases. This section contains procedures for the following:
• Creating Suffixes
• Maintaining Suffixes
Creating Suffixes
You can create both root and sub suffixes to organize the contents of your directory
tree. A root suffix is the parent of a sub suffix. It can be part of a larger tree you
have designed for your Directory Server. A sub suffix is a branch underneath a root
suffix. The data for root and sub suffixes are contained by databases.
Your directory might contain more than one root suffix. For example, an ISP might
host several websites, one for
example.com
and one for
netscape.com
. The ISP
would create two root suffixes, one corresponding to the
dc=example,dc=com
naming context and one corresponding to the
dc=netscape,dc=com
naming
context. The directory tree appears as illustrated in Figure 3-2.