IBM Verify Directory schema

You can know more about Verify Directory directory schema through the information provided here.

By default, Verify Directory maintains its schema files in the etc directory under the directory server instance owner’s home directory. For example, for the ldapdb2 instance owner, the schema file location would be:

/home/ldapdb2/idsslapd-ldapdb2/etc

Note: You can also specify a different location for the schema files during instance creation provided the instance owner has write access on the directory.

Each time you start the server, it checks the schema files, validates them against the underlying DB2® database, and checks that the database is correctly configured to support the schema.

A new instance can be configured to have the same schema by copying the schema files to the new server instance owner’s <inst_owner_home>/idsslapd-<inst_name>/etc directory. For example, to back up the schema files on AIX®, where ldapdb2 is the Security Directory Server instance being used and the directory /safeplace/etc is the location where the schema files are to be saved, issue the following command:

cp /home/ldapdb2/idsslapd-ldapdb2/etc/* /safeplace/etc

To set up a new instance with the same schema, issue the following command:

cp /safeplace/etc/* /home/<newuser>/idsslapd-<new_user>/etc