Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1, Administrator'S Manual

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Creating Indexes
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Creating Indexes
This section describes how to create presence, equality, approximate, substring,
and international indexes for specific attributes using the Directory Server Console
and the command-line.
As the procedure for creating browsing indexes is different, it is covered in a
separate section.
This section contains the following procedures:
• Creating Indexes from the Server Console
• Creating Indexes from the Command-Line
• Creating VLV Indexes from the Server Console
• Creating VLV Indexes from the Command-Line
Creating Indexes from the Server Console
Using the Directory Server Console, you can create presence, equality,
approximate, substring, and international indexes for specific attributes.
To create indexes:
1.
In the Directory Server Console, select the Configuration tab.
NOTE Given that this version of Directory Server can operate in either a
single or multi-database environment, you need to remember to
create your new indexes in every database instance since newly
created indexes are not automatically created in the other
databases.
However, the same is not entirely true for default indexes because
they are automatically present and maintained in subsequent
database instances but not added to existing ones. In other words,
the directory uses your most recently created set of default indexes
in subsequent databases. This means that if you add a default index
to your second database instance, it will not be maintained in your
first database instance but will be maintained in any subsequent
instances.