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title: Server tools location
description: The PingDirectory server stores a full set of command-line tools for maintaining your system in the PingDirectory/bin directory for UNIX or Linux machines and the PingDirectory\bat directory for Microsoft Windows machines.
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# Server tools location

The PingDirectory server stores a full set of command-line tools for maintaining your system in the `PingDirectory/bin` directory for UNIX or Linux machines and the `PingDirectory\bat` directory for Microsoft Windows machines.

The PingDirectory server, administrative console, and LDAP SDK for Java are distributed in `.zip` format. After extracting the file, you can access the `setup` utility in the server root directory, located at `PingDirectory`.

Before installing the PingDirectory server, see [Preparing the operating system (Linux)](../installing_the_pingdirectory_suite_of_products/pd_ds_prepare_operating_system_linux.html) for important information on setting up your machines. See [Installing the PingDirectory server](../installing_the_pingdirectory_suite_of_products/pd_ds_install_server.html) for information on installing a server instance using the `setup` utility. You can run this utility in either interactive command-line or non-interactive command-line. For information on modifying the configuration of a server instance or a group of servers using the command-line tools and the administrative console, see [Configuring the PingDirectory server](pd_ds_configuring_server.html).