Creating and Maintaining Database Links110 Red Hat Directory Server Administrator’s Guide • May 20052. Right-click Data in the left navigation pane, and select New Root Suffix orNew Sub Suffix from the pop-up menu.A “Create New Suffix” dialog box is displayed.3. Enter the name of the suffix on the remote server to which you want to chainin the “New suffix” field.The suffix must be named according to dc naming conventions. For example,you might enter a new suffix name of dc=example,dc=com.4. Deselect the “Create associated database automatically” checkbox.You deselect the checkbox because you cannot add a database link to a suffixthat is associated with a database. This suffix is used only by the databaselink.5. Click OK to create the new suffix.The suffix appears automatically under the Data branch in the left navigationpane.6. In the left pane, right-click the suffix you just created, and select “NewDatabase Link” from the pop-up menu.The Create New Database Link dialog box is displayed.7. Enter the name of the new database link in the “Database link name” field.Use only ASCII (7-bit) characters for naming the database link. This valuecannot contain commas, tabs, an equals sign (=), asterisk (*), backslash (\),forward slash (/), plus sign (+), quote (‘), double quote (“), or a question mark(?). For example, you might name the new database link examplelink1.8. Enter the DN used by the database link to bind to the remote server in the“Bind DN” field.For example, you might enter cn=dblink in the “Bind DN” field.9. Enter the password used by the database link to bind to the remote server inthe “Password” field.10. Select the “Use a secure LDAP connection between servers” checkbox if youwant the database link to use SSL to communicate to the remote server.11. Enter the name of the remote server in the “Remote server” field. Enter theserver port number used for the bind in the “Remote server port” field. Thedefault port number is 389.
