Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 8.1 - INSTALLATION GUIDE 11-01-2010 Installation Manual

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About migrate-ds-admin.pl736.2.1. About migrate-ds-admin.plThe migration script, migrate-ds-admin.pl, has flexible options that allow a variety of differentmigration scenarios, including migrating between different different platforms. This options are listed inTable 6.1, “migrate-ds-admin Options”.There is one required option with the migration script, oldsroot, which gives the directory path to theold Directory Server. There is also one required argument, General.ConfigDirectoryAdminPwd,which gives the password of the directory administrator for the old Directory Server. If either of theseare not supplied, the migration script will exit./usr/sbin/migrate-ds-admin.pl --oldsroot /opt/redhat-dsGeneral.ConfigDirectoryAdminPwd=passwordNOTEOn Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (32-bit) machines, the migrate-ds-admin tool is in the/usr/sbin directory. On HP-UX machines, the migrate-ds-admin is in the /opt/dirsrv/sbin/ directory.Option Alternate Options DescriptionGeneral.ConfigDirectoryAdminPwd=password Required. This is the passwordfor the configuration directoryadministrator of the oldDirectory Server (the defaultusername is admin).--oldsroot -o Required. This is the path tothe server root directory inthe old 7.1 Directory Serverinstallation. The default path in7.1 servers is /opt/redhat-ds/.--actualsroot -a This is used for migratingbetween two machines tospecify the real path to thecurrent server root directoryin the old 7.1 Directory Serverinstallation if that directoryis mounted on a networkeddrive or tarballed and movedto a relative directory. In thatcase, the oldsroot parametersets the directory from whichthe migration is run (such asmachine_new:/migrate/opt/redhat-ds/), whilethe actualsroot parametersets the server root, (/opt/redhat-ds/).