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Installation Components

Each CA Directory package contains several components. You can install, upgrade, or uninstall each package separately from the others. The packages and their components are as follows:

• Directory Package
  • DXserver

    DXserver is the central component of CA Directory. Each DSA uses a DXserver process. You can run many DSAs on one computer, but you need to install DXserver only once on each computer.

  • Documentation

    The documentation is delivered in HTML.

  • Directory Samples

    The samples contain different DSA configurations and show different methods of populating a directory. You can use these samples to explore the CA Directory features before setting up your own directory. The files for the sample DSA are always installed when you install this package, but you need to run a script to set them up.

• Directory Management Package
  • DXmanager

    DXmanager is a web application that lets you monitor, configure, and control DSAs. Using Tomcat, you can give DXmanager users permission to monitor DSAs, to start and stop DSAs, or to change the directory configuration.

  • JXweb

    JXweb is a web-based LDAP browser and editor. You can use JXweb to browse, search, configure, and update the directory data.

  • CA Directory Web Server

    DXmanager, JXweb, and the web samples require this web server.

  • Documentation

    This is the HTML version of the documentation. This includes information about administration, installation, integration with other products, and reference information.

  • Web Samples

    This component includes the DSML Server sample application. The DSML Server lets client applications use DSML, rather than LDAP, to communicate with CA Directory.

  The Directory Management components require JRE.

• JRE package

  This component contains the Java Runtime Environment, which is required by Directory Management and by JXplorer.

  If you connect to DXmanager from a computer that does not have JRE installed, the DXmanager client automatically tries to download JRE from the Sun website. To avoid this, install JRE on all computers that you use to connect to DXmanager.

• JXplorer package

  JXplorer is an open source, standards compliant, Java based, LDAP browser that lets you do the following:

  • Browse and edit any directory that supports LDAP or DSML
  • Load and unload LDIF files to and from a directory

  JXplorer requires JRE.

  Note: For more information, see the JXplorer web site at JXplorer.org.