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9.2 Product PingDirectory Directory Capability Product documentation Content Type Administration User task Troubleshooting IT Operations Audience IT Administrator Administrator Software Deployment Method System Administrator
You can set properties that apply to all tools or are tool-specific. These properties serve as defaults for the command-line options they represent.
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Use a text editor to open the default tools properties file
(config/tools.properties) or a different properties
file.
Note:
If you use a file other than config/tools.properties, invoke the tool with the
--propertiesFilePathoption to specify the path to your properties file. -
Set or change properties that apply to all tools.
Use the standard Java properties file format (name=value) to set properties. For example, the following properties define a set of LDAP connection parameters.
hostname=server1.example.com port=1389 bindDN=cn=Directory\ Manager bindPassword=secret baseDN=dc=example,dc=comNote:Properties files do not allow quotation marks of any kind around values.
Escape spaces and special characters.
Whenever you specify a path, do not use ~ to refer to the home directory. The server does not expand the ~ value when read from a properties file.
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Set or change properties that apply to specific tools.
Tool-specific properties start with the name of the tool followed by a period. These properties take precedence over properties that apply to all tools. The following example sets two ports: one that applies to all tools (
port=1389) and a tool-specific one that ldapsearch uses instead (ldapsearch.port=2389).hostname=server1.example.com port=1389 ldapsearch.port=2389 bindDN=cn=Directory\ Manager - Save your changes and close the file.