Installation guide

Installing or Upgrading NetIQ eDirectory on Linux 29
2.6 Installing eDirectory
The following sections provide information about installing NetIQ eDirectory on Linux:
 Section 2.6.1, “Using SLP with eDirectory,” on page 29
 Section 2.6.2, “Using the nds-install Utility to Install eDirectory Components,” on page 30
 Section 2.6.3, “Non-root User Installing eDirectory 8.8,” on page 32
 Section 2.6.4, “Using the ndsconfig Utility to Add or Remove the eDirectory Replica Server,” on
page 36
 Section 2.6.5, “Using ndsconfig to Configure Multiple Instances of eDirectory 8.8,” on page 40
 Section 2.6.6, “Using ndsconfig to Install a Linux Server into a Tree with Dotted Name
Containers,” on page 47
 Section 2.6.7, “Using the nmasinst Utility to Configure NMAS,” on page 48
 Section 2.6.8, “Non-root user SNMP configuration,” on page 49
2.6.1 Using SLP with eDirectory
In earlier releases of eDirectory, SLP was installed during the eDirectory install. But with eDirectory
8.8, you need to separately install SLP before proceeding with the eDirectory install.
If you plan to use SLP to resolve tree names, you should install and configure the protocol, and the
SLP directory agents (DAs) should be stable.
1 Install OpenSLP, if it is not already installed.
2 Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the SLP installation.
3 Start SLP manually as follows:
/etc/init.d/slpd start
For more information, refer to Appendix C, “Configuring OpenSLP for eDirectory,” on page 123.
Similarly, when you uninstall the SLP package, you need to stop SLP manually, as follows:
/etc/init.d/slpd stop
If you don't want to (or cannot) use SLP, you can use the flat file hosts.nds to resolve tree names to
server referrals. The
hosts.nds file can be used to avoid SLP multicast delays when SLP DA is not
present in the network.
hosts.nds is a static lookup table used by eDirectory applications to search eDirectory partition and
servers. In the
hosts.nds file, for each tree or server, a single line contains the following information:
 Tree/Server Name: Tree names end with a trailing dot (.).
 Internet Address: This can be a DNS name or IP address.
 Server Port: Optional, appended with a colon (:) to the Internet address.
Local server need not have an entry in this file unless it is listening on non-default NCP port.
The syntax followed in the
hosts.nds file is as follows:
<[partition name.]tree name>. <host-name/ip-addr>[:<port>]
<server name> <dns-addr/ip-addr>[:<port>]
For example: