---
title: Managing schema checking
description: The PingDirectory server provides full support for parsing all schema elements and provides access to all of its components.
component: pingdirectory
version: 11.0
page_id: pingdirectory:pingdirectory_server_administration_guide:pd_ds_manage_schema_checking
canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingdirectory/11.0/pingdirectory_server_administration_guide/pd_ds_manage_schema_checking.html
revdate: September 13, 2023
page_aliases: ["pd_ds_view_schema_checking_properties.adoc", "pd_ds_disable_schema_checking.adoc"]
section_ids:
  viewing-the-schema-checking-properties: Viewing the schema checking properties
  steps: Steps
  example: Example:
  disabling-schema-checking: Disabling schema checking
  about-this-task: About this task
  steps-2: Steps
  example-2: Example:
  result: Result:
---

# Managing schema checking

The PingDirectory server provides full support for parsing all schema elements and provides access to all of its components.

By default, the PingDirectory server enables schema checking for all operations, especially when importing data to the server or when modifying entries using the `ldapmodify` tool. Any schema violations generate an error message to standard output.

## Viewing the schema checking properties

### Steps

* To view the schema checking property, run `dsconfig` with the `get-global-configuration-prop` option.

  #### Example:

  ```shell
  $ bin/dsconfig get-global-configuration-prop \
    --property check-schema
  ```

## Disabling schema checking

Although you can use the `dsconfig` tool to disable the schema checking, it's not recommended.

### About this task

This feature only applies to public backends. Schema checking is enforced on private backends, such as changes to the configuration, schema, task, and others. An admin action alert is generated if you attempt to disable schema checking using `dsconfig` in interactive or non-interactive mode. The alert provides alternatives to disabling schema checking.

### Steps

1. To disable the `check-schema` property, run `dsconfig` with the `set-global-configuration-prop` option.

   #### Example:

   ```shell
   $ bin/dsconfig --no-prompt set-global-configuration-prop \
     --set check-schema:false
   ```

   #### Result:

   The system generates an admin action alert that provides alternate options to disabling schema checking.

   ```
   One or more configuration property changes require administrative action or
   confirmation/notification.

   Those properties include:

     *   check-schema: Schema checking should only be disabled as a last resort
         since disabling schema checking harms performance and can lead to
         unexpected behavior in the server as well as the applications that
         access it. There are less severe options for addressing schema issues:

     1.  Update the data to conform to the server schema.

     2.  Modify the server schema to conform to the data. Contact support before
         modifying the server's default schema.

     3.  Change the single-structural-objectclass-behavior property to allow
         entries to have no structural object class or multiple structural object
         classes.

     4.  Change the invalid-attribute-syntax-behavior property to allow attribute
         values to violate their attribute syntax.

     5.  Change the allow-zero-length-values property of the Directory String
         Attribute Syntax configuration to allow attributes with this syntax to
         have a zero length value.

   Continue?  Choose 'no' to return to the previous step (yes / no) [yes]:
   ```

2. To continue the process of disabling the schema checking instead of following one of the alternate options, press Enter.