Quality of service (QoS) policy configurations can be exported to a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory server, which makes your QoS solution easier to manage.
Instead of configuring QoS policies on all of your systems, you can store the configuration data on one local directory server for many systems to share. When you first configure QoS on your system, an Initial Configuration wizard opens. This wizard prompts you to configure a directory server.
To configure the directory server, you need to decide or know the following information:
Currently, Kerberos cannot be configured as the authentication method that the QoS server uses to access the directory.
To administer the LDAP directory server, have one of the following authority sets:
If you are using iSeries™ Navigator, you already have access to the default QoS Schema. The actual schema file is located on your system at /QIBM/UserData/OS400/DirSrv. However, if you are using an editor other than iSeries Navigator, you need to import the LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) file described in the following section. You can also import this file, after editing, you want to reload the original default file.
A set of rules, called a schema, exists to specify what types of LDAP objects are valid to the QoS server. The schema contains the necessary rules for QoS. If the LDAP server used is not a System i™ platform, these rules must be imported to the LDAP server. This is done with an LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) file. Use the LDAP Web page to download the LDIF file. You can find this file under Categories > TCP/IP Policies on the left pane.
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