Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6: Maintenance and Operations (DIR-2340)
The Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition (DSEE) 6: Maintenance and Operations course provides students with the opportunity to learn to perform routine maintenance, control access, monitor and tune servers, and perform other tasks encountered in day-to-day operations of DSEE 6. Labs acquaint students with the tools included with DSEE 6. Students use them to perform tasks such as exporting and importing data, starting and stopping servers, searching and modifying directory data. Students also learn to migrate server versions, configure servers for replication, tune performance, configure high availability, load balancing, and virtualization. This course focuses primarily on maintenance and operations issues related to DSEE 6 and not planning and design issues. For planning and design topics, refer to DIR-2217: Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6: Analysis and Planning.
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Who Can Benefit
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 Sun Java System Directory Server.Prerequisites
To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:- Perform basic UNIX commands
- Perform basic UNIX system administration tasks
- Describe Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
- Describe basic Directory Services concepts
Skills Gained
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:- Describe the configuration directory, key files, and common utilities related to DSEE
- Search and modify directory content
- Describe access, error, and audit log contents and diagnose ldapmodify LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) import errors
- Configure and test Directory Server replication
- Configure high availability and virtualization using Directory Proxy Server
- Describe Directory Server access control and write access control statements
- Use the Directory Server utilities to enforce account and password policies
- Perform directory database backup and restore functions using Directory Server utilities
- Tune Directory Server performance
- Describe and set up failover using Directory Proxy Server
- Describe and setup virtualization using Directory Proxy Server
- Migrate directory data to Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6
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Course Content
Module 1 - Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition (DSEE) 6.x
- Describe the directory information tree (DIT)
- Describe the DSEE installation directory
- Describe the Directory Service Control Center (DSCC)
- Describe DS and DSCC commands
- Describe the LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF)
Module 2 - Searching and Modifying Directory Content
- Use the ldapsearch utility to search a directory
- Use the ldapmodify utility to change directory content
Module 3 - Using Directory Server Log Files
- Describe Directory Server log files
- Describe LDAP result codes
- Analyze Access Logs
- Configure Logging Options
Module 4 - Access Control
- Describe Directory Server security methods
- Describe authentication
- Describe attribute encryption
- Describe access control
- List the default access control instructions (ACIs) provided with Directory Server
- Describe special user access control
- View access permissions on directory entries
Module 5 - Enforcing Password Policies
- Describe password policies
- Define a server-wide password policy
- Define multiple password policies
- Activate and deactivate accounts
Module 6 - Directory Server Security
- Describe the benefits of using TLS/SSL
- Describe the steps to create and install self-signed and Certificate Authority-issued Certificates
- Enable TLS/SSL on the Directory Server using a Self-Signed certificate
- Configure command line tools to use TLS/SSL
Module 7 - Backing Up and Restoring Directory Server Databases
- Describe Directory Server databases, database files, and backup and recovery utilities
- Back up Directory Server databases
- Restore Directory Server databases
- Export a directory database to LDIF
- Import a directory database from LDIF
Module 8 - Replicating Directory Server Data
- Describe replication concepts
- Describe basic replication topologies
- Configure consumer and supplier servers
- Monitor replication status
- Diagnose and resolve multimaster replication issues
- Describe configuration and schema replication
- Describe ACI and password policy issues
Module 9 - Tuning Directory Server Performance
- Tune the operating system for optimal Directory Server performance
- Tune read performance by managing indexes, configuring the nsslapd-allidsthreshold setting, configuring cache sizes, and configuring search limit settings
- Analyze indexes, index filters
- Identify system monitoring tools
Module 10 - Configuring High Availability and Load Balancing
- Describe Directory Proxy concepts
- Describe Directory Proxy Server features
- Describe Data Sources, Data Source Pools and Data Views
Module 11 - Configure Virtualization
- Describe Virtual Data Transformations
- Configure LDIF Data Views
- Configure Join Data Views
- Configure JDBC Data Views
Module 12 - Migrating to Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.x
- Describe the migration process from Directory Server 5.1 or 5.2 to Directory Server 6.3
- Identify some migration considerations
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