A Tour of Netscape Console52 Managing Servers with Netscape Console • December 2001The Administration DomainAn administration domain is a group of Netscape servers that share a userdirectory for data management and authentication. A company might want tocreate separate administration domains for each of its business sites. Each of thesedomains could include the host computers used only by that business site.Before you can create a new administration domain, you must be a member of theConfiguration Administrators group. If you are not a member of this group, youmust ask your Configuration Administrator to add you to it. For instructions onadding a user to the Configuration Administrators group, see “To Add Users to theConfiguration Administrators Group” on page 100.To Create an Administration Domain1. Open Netscape Console.2. From the Console menu, choose Create Administration Domain.3. In the Create Administration Domain dialog box, enter domain information:Domain Name. Enter a name that helps you identify this domain. This can be afully qualified domain name such as example.com or a descriptive title such asEast Coast Sales.User Directory Host. Specify the host machine on which the user directory forthis domain is located. Use the fully qualified domain name. For example,east.example.com.User Directory Port. Enter the port number for the user directory you specifiedabove.Secure Connection. Check this box if you want to connect to the user directoryusing SSL. If you select this option, make sure that the user directory portyou’ve entered is already enabled for SSL communication.Directory Subtree. Enter the base DN of the user subtree in the directory.Example: o=example.comBind DN. Enter the distinguished name for a user who has full accesspermission to the user directory. Example: uid=jdoe, ou=people,o=example.com.Bind Password. Enter the password for the user specified by the Bind DN.Owner DN. Enter the distinguished name for the user who has administrativecontrol over this domain. By default, your DN is entered.
