OpenDS LDAP directory service comes with a command-line user interface to manage every configuration parameter of the server: dsconfig.

The dsconfig tool can be run in interactive mode (and this is the default) or non interactive mode for use in scripts. Because there are many properties, and most of them would not be changed, some properties are hidden by default.They can still be managed through dsconfig, but with the Advanced mode :

$ dsconfig –advanced

The list-properties command displays the properties sorted by category. You can filter out all properties for a given category with the –category option (-c). And have the advanced properties displayed with the –advanced option.

$ dsconfig list-properties –category global

or with the advanced properties:

$dsconfig list-properties –category global –advanced

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