Instance creation and database configuration

During or after server installation, you must perform the following configuration tasks before you can use the server:

• Create user IDs for the directory server instance owner and, for some installations, the database instance owner and the database owner. This can be done through the Instance Administration Tool, which runs during installation if you use the Typical installation path of the InstallShield GUI or after installation if you use the Custom installation path.
• Create a directory server instance. This can be done during or after installation. When you install Tivoli Directory Server using the Typical path of the InstallShield GUI, you create the default directory server instance, for which most of the settings are predefined. When you install Tivoli Directory Server using some other method (such as the Custom installation path of the InstallShield GUI or operating system utility installation), you can create a directory server instance with settings that you define.
• Set the Tivoli Directory Server primary administrator distinguished name (DN) and password for the directory server instance. This operation can be compared to defining the root user ID and password on a UNIX system.
• If the directory server instance is not a proxy server, configure the database. You do not need a database for a proxy server instance.

You can have multiple directory server instances on one computer, and they can be a mixture of proxy server and full directory server instances. The files for each directory server instance are stored in a path that includes the directory server instance name.

During or after successful installation of a server, if you used the InstallShield GUI to install, the Instance Administration Tool runs so that you can create a directory server instance. If you did not use the InstallShield GUI to install, you must start the Instance Administration Tool manually or use the idsicrt command-line utility.

When you create a full directory server instance, a database instance is also created if the full directory server is installed on the computer. By default, the directory server instance and the database instance have the same name. The name must match the name of an existing user on the system that meets certain qualifications, described in Appendix D. Setting up users and groups: directory server instance owner, database instance owner, and database owner.

You can also use the Instance Administration Tool for the following tasks:

• Starting and stopping the server and the administration server
• Making a copy of a Tivoli Directory Server 6.3 directory server instance that is on the same computer or on another computer
• Migrating server schema and configuration files from a previous release to a Tivoli Directory Server 6.3 instance
• Editing the TCP/IP settings for an instance
• Viewing all instances on the computer
• Viewing details about a particular instance
• Deleting an instance

If you prefer to use the command line, all the tasks in the list can be done with the following command-line utilities:

• idsslapd starts or stops the server
• idsdiradm starts or stops the administration server
• idsideploy creates a directory server instance from an existing directory server instance.
• idsimigr migrates the schema and configuration files from a previous release to Tivoli Directory Server 6.3 versions of these files.
• idssethost sets the IP addresses the directory server instance binds to.
• idssetport sets the ports the directory server instance binds to.
• idsilist lists the directory server instance(s) on the computer and can list detailed information about each instance.
• idsidrop removes a directory server instance.

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