PingDirectory

Installing the first PingDirectoryProxy server

Install the first PingDirectoryProxy server from the .zip installation file.

About this task

To begin with, we have the PingDirectoryProxy installation .zip file. In this example, we plan to use SSL security, so we also have a key store certificate database and a .pin file that contains the private key password for the key store. The key store files are only necessary when using SSL or StartTLS.

In this deployment scenario, the key store database is assumed to be a Java KeyStore (JKS), which can be created by the keytool program.

The PingDirectoryProxy directory contains the following.

root@proxy-east-01: ls
ExampleKeystore.jks   ExampleTruststore.jks ExampleKeystore.pin
PingDirectoryProxy-8.0.0.0-with-je.zip

The ExampleKeystore.jks key store file contains the private key entry for the proxy-east-01.example.com server certificate with the alias server-cert. The server certificate, certificate authority (CA), and intermediate signing certificates are all contained in the ExampleTruststore.jks file. The password for ExampleKeystore.jks is defined in clear text in the corresponding .pin file, though the name of the file need not match as it does in this example. The private key password in this example is the same as the password defined for the ExampleKeystore.jks key store.

Steps

  1. Extract the compressed archive file into the PingDirectoryProxy directory and change to this directory.

    Example:

    root@proxy-east-01: unzip -q PingDirectoryProxy-<version>-with-je.zip
root@proxy-east-01: cd PingDirectoryProxy

  2. Copy the key store and .pin files into the config directory.

    Example:

    root@proxy-east01: cp ../Keystore config/
root@proxy-east01: cp ../Truststore config/

  3. Install the first proxy server by running the setup tool on proxy-east-01.example.com.

    Example:

    root@proxy-east01: ./setup --no-prompt --acceptLicense \
--ldapPort 389 --rootUserPassword pass \
--maxHeapSize 1g --enableStartTLS --ldapsPort 636 \
--useJavaKeystore config/ExampleKeystore.jks \
--keyStorePasswordFile config/ExampleKeystore.pin \
--certNickname server-cert \
--useJavaTrustStore config/ExampleTruststore.jks

    Result:

    New key store password files are created in config/keystore.pin. The original file, config/ExampleKeystore.pin, is no longer needed. If you are not using SSL or StartTLS, then the SSL arguments are not necessary.

    root@proxy-east01: ./setup --no-prompt --acceptLicense \
--ldapPort 389 --rootUserPassword pass --maxHeapSize 1g

Next steps

After installing the PingDirectoryProxy server, you can configure it using the create-initial-proxy-config tool as presented in Configuring the first PingDirectory server.