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8.3. Before Migration
For the safety of the Directory Server data, do these things before beginning to migrate the Directory
Server instances:
• Shut down all Directory Server instances and the Administration Server.
• Back up all of your databases.
• For servers which have a different configuration directory, make sure that the Directory Server
Console write operations are moved from the configuration directory to the server itself.
8.3.1. Backing up the Directory Server Configuration
All of the configuration files for Directory Server 6.x and 7.x instances are in the
/opt/redhat-ds/
slapd-
serverID
/config
directory. Other important configuration files for the Administration Server
and for shared configuration are in
/opt/redhat-ds/admin-serv/config
and
/opt/redhat-
ds/shared/config
. Make a backup of all of these files in a secure location.
8.3.2. Configuring the Directory Server Console
If you have a multi-master replication setup which replicates
o=NetscapeRoot
replicated between
the two master servers,
server1
and
server2
. By default, writes made through
server2
's Directory
Server Console are written to
server1
, then replicated over. Modify the Directory Server Console on
the second server (
server2
) so that it writes its own Console instance instead of
server1
's.
1. Shut down the Administration Server and Directory Server.
2. Change the
adm.conf
file for the Administration Server to reflect
server2
Directory Servers
values:
ldapurl: ldap://server2.example.com:389/o=NetscapeRoot
3. Change the
dse.ldif
for the Directory Server to reflect
server2
Directory Servers values:
serverRoot
/slapd-
serverID
/config/dse.ldif:nsslapd-pluginarg0:
ldap:///server2.example.com:389/o=NetscapeRoot
4. Turn off the Pass-through Authentication Plug-in on
server2
by editing its
dse.ldif
file and
setting the
nsslapd-pluginEnabled
value to
off
.
serverRoot
/slapd-
serverID
/config/dse.ldif
dn: cn=Pass Through Authentication,cn=plugins,cn=config
nsslapd-pluginEnabled:
off
5. Restart the Directory Server and Administration Server.