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Setting up Red Hat Directory Server on
Sun Solaris
Installing and configuring Red Hat Directory Server on Sun Solaris has three major steps:
1. Install the required version of the Java® Runtime Environment (JRE).
2. Install the Directory Server packages.
3. Run the
setup
program. The
setup
step is where all of the information about the new Directory
Server instance is supplied.
WARNING
If Directory Server is already installed on your machine, it is extremely important that you
perform a migration, not a fresh installation. Migration is described in
Chapter 8, Migrating
from Previous Versions
.
There are three interactive ways of setting up Directory Server: express, typical, and custom.
These setup types provide different levels of control over the configuration settings, such as port
numbers, directory suffixes, and users and groups for the Directory Server processes. Express
has the least amount of input, meaning it uses more default or randomly-generated settings, while
custom allows the most control over the configuration by having the user supply a lot of configuration
information. These setup types are described more in
Table 1.2, “Comparison of Setup Types”
. For
most deployments, the typical installation type is all that is required.
NOTE
There is a fourth setup option called a
silent installation
. This uses a file with predefined
settings to create a new Directory Server without any user interaction. This is extremely
useful for doing large numbers of Directory Server instances, since it does not require any
user involvement after the packages are installed. Silent installations are explained more
in
Section 6.3.1, “Silent Setup for Directory Server and Administration Server”
.
This chapter describes the complete process to install Red Hat Directory Server on Solaris, including
both the JRE and Directory Server packages, and the different setup options.
5.1. Installing the JRE
Necessary Java JRE libraries are not bundled with Directory Server. They must be downloaded and
extracted separately before installing the Directory Server packages.
NOTE
Directory Server 8.0 requires JRE version 1.5.0.
Install the latest version of the 64-bit Sun J2SE Java Runtime Environment 5.0 (Update 9), available
from the Sun download site,
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
.