Overview of the Migration Script
The migration script performs different tasks depending on whether you are upgrading your existing directory server to the latest release or keeping the current release.
Script Tasks Without Directory Server Upgrade
- Export and convert any existing LDAP objects into a file.
- Delete the existing objects from the LDAP directory.
- Delete all obsolete schema elements from the global directory schema.
- Modify existing schema elements as needed, and add the new schema elements to the global directory schema.
- Extend the access-control schema. For DirX only, extend the directory information tree (DIT) structure and DIT content rules.
- Modify existing data as needed.
- Import the modified LDAP objects into the directory.
Script Tasks With Directory Server Upgrade
- Export and convert any existing LDAP objects into a file.
- Delete the existing objects from the LDAP directory.
- Export the existing database into an LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) file in case the databases are not compatible between the current and upgraded versions.
- Remove the existing LDAP directory instance and the corresponding directory add-on package.
- Install the upgraded directory and the latest directory add-on package (which includes any schema changes).
- Import the LDIF file generated from the existing database.
- Modify existing data as needed.
- Import the modified LDAP objects into the directory.