This guide shows you how to configure, maintain, and troubleshoot OpenDJ directory services. This guide also describes file layouts, ports used, and standards, controls, extended operations, and languages supported for OpenDJ installations.

This guide is written for directory designers and administrators who build, deploy, and maintain OpenDJ directory services for your organizations. This guide starts by introducing the OpenDJ administrative interfaces and tools, and by showing how to manage OpenDJ server processes. It also demonstrates how to import and export directory data. This guide continues by showing how to configure and monitor the principle features of individual OpenDJ servers, and how to configure and monitor replicated server topologies for distributed high availability. It then demonstrates how to tune, troubleshoot, and move servers. This guide concludes with appendices of useful reference information for directory designers and administrators. You do not need to be an LDAP wizard to learn something from this guide, though a background in directory services and maintaining server software can help. You do need some background in managing servers and services on your operating system of choice. You can nevertheless get started with this guide, and then learn more as you go along.