 After you have started FCDS, you can:
• import an LDIF file to populate your empty FirstClass Directory, or export the entries in the FirstClass Directory to an LDIF file
• start syncing to the external LDAP server (not applicable to standalone mode)
• change the logging level you specified when you prepared FCDS for use.
Importing and exporting LDIF files
An LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) file is a text file that contains directory entries. You can import an LDIF file to add a large number of entries to the FirstClass Directory at once, or export FirstClass Directory entries to an LDIF file.
You can use menu items on the FCDS console or buttons on the Directory Monitor form in the Directory Services folder to import and export LDIF files.
Importing LDIF files
To import an LDIF file to the FirstClass Directory:
1 Open the Directory Setup form in the Directory Services folder.
2 Provide the full path and name of the LDIF file at "LDIF file" on the Replication tab.
3 Do one of the following:
• choose Directory > Import LDIF File (console)
• click Import LDIF File (form).
Exporting LDIF files
To export FirstClass Directory entries to an LDIF file, do one of the following:
• choose Directory > Export LDIF File (console)
• click Export LDIF File (form).
The LDIF file is saved in the FirstClassDS folder with the name
FCDS_year_month_day_hour_second generated.LDIF
Syncing to the external LDAP server
You can use menu items on the FCDS console or buttons on the Directory Monitor form in the Directory Services folder to control syncing to the external LDAP server.
As well as containing buttons to control syncing, the Directory Monitor form includes lights that indicate whether syncing is active and enabled.
Enabling syncing
To make FCDS ready to accept syncing, do one of the following:
• choose Directory > Enable Sync (console)
• click Enable Sync (form).
Starting syncing
Make sure you enable syncing before you start it.
Actually starting syncing varies depending on your external LDAP server:
• iPlanet DS
This server must initiate syncing. FCDS cannot do so, but must wait for syncing to start.
• Open LDAP Directory Server
This server must also initiate syncing. To get FCDS and OpenLDAP in sync for the first time, import the LDIF file you created as part of configuration, with replication disabled. After this is done, you can enable replication and start SLURPD.
• Active Directory.
Either this server or FCDS can initiate syncing. If you want to start syncing from FCDS, do one of the following:
• choose Directory > Start Sync (console)
• click Start Sync (form).
After you have started syncing to the external LDAP server, replication will happen in the background indefinitely unless you disable syncing.
Disabling syncing
Normally, you won't stop syncing once it has started. If you ever need to make FCDS stop accepting syncing, do one of the following:
• choose Directory > Disable Sync (console)
• click Disable Sync (form).
Reconfiguring syncing
If you have changed values on the Directory Setup form, make FCDS pick up the new values in one of the following ways:
• choose Directory > Reset (console)
• click Reset (form).
FCDS logging
FCDS logs activity in both the console and a plain text log file.
There is one log file generated per day. These files are stored in the FirstClassDS folder. The current day's activity is written to FCDS.LOG. At midnight, this log is renamed
FCDS_year_month_day_hour started.LOG
and a new FCDS.LOG is generated.
Notes
The log is also renamed if you stop FCDS.
If FCDS is stopped at midnight for an abnormal reason, such as a power outage, this renaming will not take place. You will only find the FCDS.LOG file for that day. To save that day's logging information, rename the log manually.
Changing the logging level
You set the level of logging detail when you prepared FCDS. You can change this level from the console by choosing Log Level and the new level you want.
 CautionIf you specified nonstandard values for information to be excluded, then choose a new logging level, you will lose the customized specifications.
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