This course provides students with the opportunity to learn to perform routine maintenance and troubleshooting techniques, monitor and tune servers, create and manage multiple databases, and perform other tasks encountered in day-to-day operations of Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition (Directory Server EE) 7.0. Labs acquaint students with the tools included with Directory Server EE. Students should use them to perform tasks such as searching and modifying directory data, exporting and importing data, starting and stopping servers, and troubleshooting. Students should also migrate server versions, create multiple databases, configure servers for replication, and tune performance. This course focuses primarily on maintenance and operations issues related to Directory Server EE rather than planning and design issues. For planning and design topics, refer to DIR-2217: Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition: Analysis and Planning.

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Students who can benefit from this course are system engineers, support engineers, system administrators, and other technical support personnel with responsibility for day-to-day maintenance of Directory Server EE.

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

• Use the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) command line to run commands and edit files
• Define basic Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) terms, such as directory information tree (DIT), distinguished name (DN), relative distinguished name (RDN), base DN, and search filter

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Install Directory Server EE and the Directory Service Control Center (DSCC)
• Search and modify directory content
• Describe access, error, and audit log contents and diagnose ldapmodify LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) import errors
• Describe Directory Server EE access control and write access control statements
• Use the Directory Server EE utilities to enforce account and password policies
• Configure Directory Server EE for SSL deployments
• Perform directory backup and restore functions using Directory Server EE utilities
• Configure and test Directory Server EE replication
• Tune Directory Server EE performance
• Configure high availability and virtualization using a directory proxy server
• Migrate directory data to Directory Server EE 7.0

Module 1 - Introducing Sun Directory Server EE

• Install Directory Server EE
• Install DSCC

• Search and modify directory data

• Use Directory Server EE log files to diagnose LDIF errors

• Diagnose access control instruction (ACI) problems
• Configure connection-based access control

• Enforce Directory Server EE password and account lockout policies

• View and manage SSL settings and certificates
• Use the ldapsearch utility over SSL
• Use the dsconf utility over SSL

• Back up and restore directory data

• Set up three-way multimaster replication
• Monitor replication using DSCC and Directory Server EE utilities
• Create a three-tier replication topology (optional)
• Promote consumer replicas and create five-way multimaster replication (optional)

• Tune the operating system by running the idsktune utility
• Tune directory read performance
• Tune directory write performance
• Identify system monitoring tools

• Configure failover using a directory proxy server
• Configure proportional load balancing
• Configure load balancing using the command-line interface

• Create an LDAP data view
• Create a joined LDAP/LDIF view
• Access relational database data through a directory proxy server

• Migrate from an older version of Directory Server to Directory Server EE 7.0 (optional)