Directory Services 7.3.5

Schema Backend

The Schema Backend provides access to the directory server schema information, including the attribute types, object classes, attribute syntaxes, matching rules, matching rule uses, DIT content rules, and DIT structure rules that it contains.

The server allows "modify" operations in this backend to alter the server schema definitions. The configuration entry for this backend is based on the ds-cfg-schema-backend structural object class. Note that any attribute types included in this entry that are not included in this object class (or the parent ds-cfg-backend class) appears directly in the schema entry.

Parent

The Schema Backend object inherits from Local Backend.

Schema Backend properties

You can use configuration expressions to set property values at startup time. For details, see Property value substitution.

Basic Properties Advanced Properties

backend-id
enabled
show-all-attributes
writability-mode

java-class
schema-entry-dn

Basic properties

Use the --advanced option to access advanced properties.

backend-id

Synopsis

Specifies a name to identify the associated backend.

Description

The name must be unique among all backends in the server. The backend ID may not be altered after the backend is created in the server.

Default value

None

Allowed values

A string.

Multi-valued

No

Required

Yes

Admin action required

None

Advanced

No

Read-only

Yes

enabled

Synopsis

Indicates whether the backend is enabled in the server.

Description

If a backend is not enabled, then its contents are not accessible when processing operations.

Default value

None

Allowed values

true

false

Multi-valued

No

Required

Yes

Admin action required

None

Advanced

No

Read-only

No

show-all-attributes

Synopsis

Indicates whether to treat all attributes in the schema entry as if they were user attributes regardless of their configuration.

Description

This may provide compatibility with some applications that expect schema attributes like attributeTypes and objectClasses to be included by default even if they are not requested. Note that the ldapSyntaxes attribute is always treated as operational in order to avoid problems with attempts to modify the schema over protocol.

Default value

None

Allowed values

true

false

Multi-valued

No

Required

Yes

Admin action required

None

Advanced

No

Read-only

No

writability-mode

Synopsis

Specifies the behavior that the backend should use when processing write operations.

Default value

enabled

Allowed values

  • disabled: Causes all write attempts to fail.

  • enabled: Allows write operations to be performed in that backend (if the requested operation is valid, the user has permission to perform the operation, the backend supports that type of write operation, and the global writability-mode property is also enabled).

  • internal-only: Causes external write attempts to fail but allows writes by replication and internal operations.

Multi-valued

No

Required

Yes

Admin action required

None

Advanced

No

Read-only

No

Advanced properties

Use the --advanced option to access advanced properties.

java-class

Synopsis

Specifies the fully-qualified name of the Java class that provides the backend implementation.

Default value

org.opends.server.backends.SchemaBackend

Allowed values

A Java class that extends or implements:

  • org.opends.server.api.Backend

Multi-valued

No

Required

Yes

Admin action required

The object must be disabled and re-enabled for changes to take effect.

Advanced

Yes

Read-only

No

schema-entry-dn

Synopsis

Defines the base DNs of the subtrees in which the schema information is published in addition to the value included in the base-dn property.

Description

The value provided in the base-dn property is the only one that appears in the subschemaSubentry operational attribute of the server’s root DSE (which is necessary because that is a single-valued attribute) and as a virtual attribute in other entries. The schema-entry-dn attribute may be used to make the schema information available in other locations to accommodate certain client applications that have been hard-coded to expect the schema to reside in a specific location.

Default value

cn=schema

Allowed values

A valid DN.

Multi-valued

Yes

Required

No

Admin action required

None

Advanced

Yes

Read-only

No