PingDirectory

Compacting common parent DNs

The PingDirectory server compacts entry distinguished names (DNs) by tokenizing common parent DNs.

About this task

Tokenizing the common parent DNs allows you to increase space usage efficiency when encoding entries for storage.

By default, PingDirectory generates tokens for the following:

  • Base DNs for the backend, such as dc=example,dc=com

  • Any compact-common-parent-dn values defined in the server configuration

  • ou=People,<base dn>

  • ou=Groups,<base dn>

The tokens are generated in this order. You can also define additional common base DNs to be tokenized.

Steps

  • Use the following configuration to tokenize two branches: ou=people,dc=example,dc=com and ou=customers,dc=example,dc=com.

    Example:

    $ bin/dsconfig set-backend-prop --backend-name userRoot \
  --add "compact-common-parent-dn:ou=people,dc=example,dc=com" \
  --add "compact-common-parent-dn:ou=customers,dc=example,dc=com"