Paul Dhanjal

Perl Scripts Offer Quick, Accurate Installation and Configuration of Sun Java System Directory Server

Jonathan Gershater posted a great article on Sun Developer Network on using the CLI (command line interface) for Directory Server 6 to automate the directory deployment of five servers in a MMR environment. This example shows how creating the instances, configuring and setting up replication can be done in minutes using Perl. This is one of the great leaps the 6 product has taken from 5.2. I used to create scripts to do the same thing but it always felt like a “hack”. I appreciate SUN implementing a CLI and supporting this type of configuration as it facilitates and simplifies migration deployments tremendously.