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Novell DNS/DHCP Management Utility Administration Guide
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September 4, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
It operates within the common eDirectory Management Framework
(iManage) and is thus tightly integrated with Netware 6.
For more detailed information about the DNS/DHCP Management Utility,
refer to “Understanding the DNS/DHCP Management Utility” on page 51.
Understanding the eDirectory Schema Extension
The eDirectory schema extension defines additional objects needed for DNS
and DHCP.
For more information, refer to:
 “DNS/DHCP Global eDirectory Objects” on page 21
 “New eDirectory Objects for DNS” on page 22
 “eDirectory Objects for DHCP” on page 24
DNS/DHCP Global eDirectory Objects
When you select Novell DNS/DHCP Services during NetWare 6 installation,
the eDirectory schema is extended to enable the creation of DNS and DHCP
objects, and the following objects are created:
 DNS/DHCP Locator object
 DNS/DHCP Group object
 RootSrvrInfo Zone
Only one copy of these objects exists in an eDirectory tree. The DNS servers,
DHCP servers, and DNS/DHCP Management Utility must have access to
these objects.
The DNS/DHCP Group object is a standard eDirectory group object. The
DNS and DHCP servers gain the rights to DNS and DHCP data within the tree
through the Group object. When the DNS/DHCP Management Utility is used
to create DNS and DHCP servers, the servers have the rights required to
access data.
The DNS/DHCP Locator object contains global defaults, DHCP options, and
lists of all DNS and DHCP servers, subnets, and zones in the tree. The DNS/
DHCP Management Utility can display these objects without having to search
the tree by using the Locator object. The Locator object is basically hidden by
the DNS/DHCP Management Utility.