Directory administration involves the management of objects in your directory tree. You can create, edit, and organize objects.
For more information about eDirectory objects, see the NetIQ eDirectory 9.0 Administration Guide.
You can either create a new object with the same attribute values as an existing object, or copy attribute values from one object to another.
In Roles and Tasks, click Directory Administration > Copy Object.
In the Object to Copy From field, type the name and context of the object or use the Object Selector to find it.
Select one of the following options:
Create New Object and Copy Attribute Values
Copy Attribute Values to an Existing Object
The attributes whose class is not extended by the copied object, are not copied.
Select Copy ACL Rights if you want to copy access control list (ACL) rights to this object.
This step might take additional processing time, depending on your system and networking environment.
NOTE:The copy object operation does not copy the following object attributes:
ACL (unless you select Copy ACL Rights)
CN
DirXML-Associations
Equivalent To Me
Group Membership
Member
Security Equals
Any naming attribute
Any Read Only attribute
Any RBS attribute
In Roles and Tasks, click Directory Administration > Create Object.
Select the object class from the list that appears, then click OK.
Specify the requested information that appears according to the object class you selected, then click OK.
If you are using Firefox, click the + symbol to add information instead of typing directly in the field.
When the confirmation message appears, click OK, Repeat Task, or Modify.
In Roles and Tasks, click Directory Administration > Delete Object.
Type the name and context of the object, or use the Object Selector to find it, and click OK.
A confirmation message appears indicating the object was successfully deleted.
In Roles and Tasks, click Directory Administration > Modify Object.
Type the name and context of the object or use the Object Selector to find it, then click OK.
The Modify Object page displays pages with the selected object’s attributes.
Modify the object as desired, then click OK.
If you are using Firefox, click the + symbol to add information instead of typing directly in the field.
In Roles and Tasks, select Directory Administration > Move Object.
Type the name and context of the object or use the Object Selector to find it, then click OK.
In the Move To field, select the container to which you want to move the object.
Select Create an Alias in Place of Moved Object to create an alias in an old location for each object being moved.
Click OK.
A confirmation message appears indicating the move object operation was successful.
In Roles and Tasks, select Directory Administration > Rename Object.
Type the name and context of the object or use the search feature to find it.
Type only the name of the new object. Do not include a context.
Select to save the old name, if you want to save it.
This saves the old name as an additional unofficial value of the Name property. Saving the old name lets users search for the object based on that name. After renaming the object, you can view the old name in the Other Name field on the object’s General Identification tab.
Select Create an Alias in Place of Renamed Object, if you want to create an alias for the object being named.
This allows any operations that are dependent on the old object name to continue uninterrupted until you can update those operations to use the new object name.
Click OK.
A confirmation message appears indicating that the object renaming operation was successful.