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Creating and Maintaining Suffixes
88 Red Hat Directory Server Administrator’s Guide • May 2005
4.
Click the Referrals tab. Enter an LDAP URL in the “Enter a new referral”
field, or click Construct to be guided through the creation of an LDAP URL.
For more information about the structure of LDAP URLs, see Appendix C,
“LDAP URLs.”
5.
Click Add to add the referral to the list.
You can enter multiple referrals. The directory will return the entire list of
referrals in response to requests from client applications.
6.
Click Save.
Enabling Referrals Only During Update Operations
You may want to configure your directory to redirect update and write requests
made by client applications to a read-only database.
For example, you can enable referrals for update operations when you have a
local copy of the directory data that you do not own. You want the data to be
available for searches but not for updates. You do this by enabling referrals only
during update requests. When a client application asks to update an entry, the
client is referred to the server that owns the data, where the modification request
can proceed.
To enable referrals only during update operations:
1.
In the Directory Server Console, select the Configuration tab.
2.
Under Data in the left pane, click the suffix for which you want to add a
referral.
3.
Click the Suffix Settings tab, and select the “Return Referrals for Update
Operations” radio button.
4.
Click the Referrals tab. Enter an LDAP URL in the “Enter a new referral”
field, or click Construct to be guided through the creation of an LDAP URL.
For more information about the structure of LDAP URLs, refer to Appendix
C, “LDAP URLs.”
5.
Click Add to add the referral to the list.
You can enter multiple referrals. The directory will return the entire list of
referrals in response to requests from client applications.
6.
Click Save.