The Software AG Directory Server provides central management of directory services. It runs as either a Windows service or a UNIX daemon. All directory information required to accomplish communication between clients and servers is obtained from the Directory Server. Only Directory Server address information, essentially the host and port of the Directory Server, is required for clients and servers to use the Directory Server.
This document describes the new and changed features of the 5.4 version of the Software AG Directory Server.
Version 5.4 of the Software AG Directory Server is released for the following operating environments:
AIX 6.1 (64-bit)
HP-UX 11i version 3 for Itanium and PA-RISC Processors (64-bit)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (x86 64-bit and zSeries)
Solaris 10 (SPARC 64-bit)
SuSe Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86 64-bit and zSeries)
Windows 7 Professional (x86 and x86 64-bit)
Windows Server 2008 (x86 and x86 64-bit)
Windows XP Professional
The following enhancements have been added in this release:
Effective with this release of the Directory Server, a default Directory Server link entry named sag-adi is automatically created in SMH when Directory Server is installed. This default Directory Server link entry is for the Directory Server installed on the same machine as SMH. If your Directory Server is not installed on the SMH machine, you will need to create an SMH link entry for the Directory Server on that machine, as you had to do in past releases.
For more information about adding a link to your Directory Server, read Adding a Link to a Directory Serve.
In a future version, support for the following platforms will be dropped:
32-bit Linux
HP-UX on PA-RISC processors
Windows XP
The documentation for this product has been updated for this release. This documentation is published for customers with the documentation for other products, such as Entire Net-Work; it is never published for customers on its own.
The documentation for this product is new with this release. When additional updated versions of the documentation are created, you can review them by linking to the Software AG documentation web site: http://documentation.softwareag.com/. If you have an Empower account, updated and past versions of the documentation can also be reviewed and downloaded by linking to the Software AG Empower web site: https://empower.softwareag.com. If you do not have an Empower user ID and password yet, you will find instructions for registering on this site (free for customers with maintenance contracts).
The Software AG Directory Server documentation includes:
online HTML topics describing all aspects of the product;
Adobe Acrobat Reader Portable Document Format (PDF) files created from the HTML topics;
Adobe Acrobat Reader Portable Document Format (PDF) files for a series of manuals created from the HTML topics.
No hard-copy documentation is provided, but you can print the PDF and HTML files on your local printer.
With Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows XP and Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Server 2003, Microsoft introduced a range of powerful new security features that restrict active content that runs locally on your computer. Active content includes ActiveX controls, Java applets, and JavaScript. Software AG's documentation web pages contain some JavaScript, and the SEARCH, INDEX and CONTENTS capabilities are implemented as Java applets. As a result, when viewing documentation web pages that reside on your PC using Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox under Windows XP SP2, note that active content is blocked. You must explicitly and repeatedly allow active content if you want to make use of the documentation's full navigation features. Note that this behavior is only observed when reading web pages installed locally on your PC, including those on CD in the PCs CD-ROM drive.
The active content for which Software AG is responsible, that is, the JavaScript code in our HTML documentation pages, will not harm your computers. The risk in using the navigation applets is negligible: Software AG has received no reports from users concerning any harm caused to a computer by the applets. We therefore suggest that when reading Software AG documentation in a local context, you should allow active content via the Security settings in the browser (with Internet Explorer, usually found under Tools > Internet Options > Advanced).
Full details of alternatives can be found on the home page of the suppliers of the navigation applets: http://www.phdcc.com/xpsp2.htm.
