Changing Directory Install Name

Question

Hi,
If I have built my Sun One directory server under a given name, for example, "myserver", can I rename it without re-installing the directory.
Eg the above example creates a physical directory called "slapd-myserver" and creates config and entries in the registry referring to a service of the same name.
Can I change this somehow if I want to rename my service to Eg "mynewserver", so I get a physical directory called "slapd-mynewserver" and the appropriate config and registry entries.
TIA for any help,
DB

Answer 1

I've done it several times by using approriate shell scripts and standard *nix and LDAP utilities.
If I remember well, I do as follows:
- take a complete LDIF dump of the Netscaperoot
database ;
- stop the administration server and all the instances of
the DS administered by it
- change the OLDNAME of the instance using 'sed' in the
following instance files:
- dse.ldif
- 99user.ldif
- all the shell and Perl scripts in the
slapd-OLDNAME directory
- change OLDNAME to NEWNAME in the
admin-serv/config/adm.conf file, if the DS instance to
change is the configuration instance
- rename the slapd-OLDNAME directory to
slapd-NEWNAME
- change OLDNAME to NEWNAME in the LDIF dump file
of the Netscapereoot database
- do a full import of the Netscaperoot database from the
changed LDIF dump file
- restart everything
It usually works ;-))) and is very quickj.
Best wishes,
Michele Montagni