Summary
The focus of this chapter has been on advanced configuration of the SLAPD server. We began by taking a second look at the slapd.conf file. Then we added an additional database to our directory server, supporting a second directory information tree. From there we looked at some ways of improving SLAPD's performance using directives in the slapd.conf file, and also tuning the Berkeley DB's DB_CONFIG file. In the last section we looked at SLAPD's overlay engine, touring three specific overlays.
By now you should feel comfortable working with the slapd.conf file as well as using overlays.
In the next chapter we will examine LDAP schemas, adding a few schemas for new overlays, and then creating our own schema. Later, in Chapter 7, we will expand ...
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