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Create a DSA

To create a new DSA, you tell DXmanager the host, the namespace that the DSA will serve, and the type of DSA you want DXmanager to create.

Follow these steps:

1. Log in to DXmanager as a user with the Change or Superuser role.
2. Ensure that DXmanager is in Edit mode.
3. Click the Maps tab and display the Topology map.
4. Right-click the host that will hold the new DSA, then select Instantiate a new partition to this host.

   Note: You can also create a new DSA by right-clicking on a partition in the Namespace map.

5. Select one of the DSA types:
   • As a Router DSA
   • As a Data DSA
   • As a third-party X.500 DSA
   • As a third-party LDAP DSA

   The Instantiate dialog opens.

6. Do the following in the dialog:
   1. Select the namespace partition that the new DSA will serve, and then click Next.

      Note: A namespace cannot be served by both a data DSA and a router DSA, so if it is already served by one of these sorts of DSA, the other option is unavailable.

   2. Choose the network address for this DSA. If the host has a single address, you can leave this unchanged.
   3. Click OK when you are done.
7. Click Configuration, Deploy to update the hosts with the new configuration.
8. Do the following on the host that contains the new DSA:
   1. Edit the new initialization file (DXHOME/config/servers/dsaname.dxi) to source any customized configuration files. These files can configure logging, schemas, settings, limits, and access controls.

      Note: If you edit and deploy the configuration again, the initialization files are not overwritten. This means that you do not need to change the initialization files again - your customizations remain in the files.

   2. Create the datastores required for the new DSAs.
   3. Load or synchronize each DSA with other DSAs that serve the same namespace partition.