Objective

Know what the default ports, passwords, locations, and other default values that are used by IBM Security Directory Suite Virtual Appliance.

Time:

15 minutes

This video explains and demonstrates how to complete a firmware upgrade for the IBM Directory Suite virtual appliance.

In this video demonstration, you will learn how to modify the hosts file within the IBM Directory Suite virtual appliance. The hosts file is used to map host names to IP addresses.

To manage the hosts file with the virtual appliance, you will use the Manage Hosts File page.

This video describes what you need to do in order to prepare for a firmware upgrade of the Directory Suite Virtual Appliance, and, shows you how to do the upgrade.

This video shows you how to manage the virtual appliance hosts file. The hosts file is used to map host names to IP addresses.

This video explains how to configure LDAPSync between Microsoft Active Directory and Directory Suite Virtual Appliance 8.0.1 using Directory Integrator 7.2.

The LDAPSync solution provides both migration and synchronization services for person or user, and, group entries from one or more source endpoints. In this course, Active Directory is a source endpoint.

IBM Directory Suite is provided as a virtual appliance (virtual machine). A virtual appliance is a pre-configured virtual desktop environment. In this lab, you explore IBM Directory Suite graphical management interface also known as LMI (Local Management Interface) and a command-line interface (CLI).

In this video, you learn how to configure replication for two Directory Servers using the command line on Directory Suite Virtual Appliance 8.0.1.

Replication is a technique used by Directory Servers to improve:

• performance
• availability
• reliability