Environment
Novell Identity Manager 3.5.1
Novell Identity Manager Engine
Novell eDirectory 8.8 for Linux
Novell eDirectory 8.8 for Solaris
Novell eDirectory 8.8
Situation
eDirectory 8.8.x allows multiple instances of eDirectory to exist
on the same server. Identity Manager (IDM) 3.0+ takes
advantage of this and allows each of those instances to still be
full IDM meta-directory systems. Once IDM is installed on the
server if additional trees are configured on the same physical
server in different instances the schema must still be extended for
each tree which will run Identity Manager.
Resolution
The idm-install-schema tool located in /opt/novell/eDirectory/bin
can be used to extend schema for any number of instances on the
local server. The command requires that the user be able to
enter admin credentials for the tree in dot notation (use
admin.user.system for cn=admin,dc=user,dc=system or
cn=admin.dc=user.dc=system). A log file is also created in
the current user's home directory; for example
/home/idmuser/schema.log would be created for the 'idmuser' account
used to run the command. If this command is 'root' the file
should be /root/schema.log . As always schema should be
extended from the Master replica of the [root] partition so the
schema is replicated properly to the entire tree.