DIRECTORY SERVICES

Full-text indexing directory catalogs
A condensed Directory Catalog should have a full-text index, but a full-text index on an Extended Directory Catalog is optional.

Full-text indexing condensed Directory Catalogs

Since a server uses full-text searches rather than view lookups to find any of the following information in a condensed Directory Catalog, it's important that the directory catalog has a full-text index:


When you replicate a condensed Directory Catalog, the replica you create is full-text indexed automatically. However, if you use the file system to make a copy of a condensed Directory Catalog, the copy is not full-text indexed. If you delete a full-text index from a condensed Directory Catalog, you must re-create the index manually.

If only clients use a condensed Directory Catalog, conserve disk space by deleting full-text indexes on any server replicas.

Users cannot directly full-text search condensed Directory Catalogs.

Full-text indexing Extended Directory Catalogs

It's generally not necessary to full-text index Extended Directory Catalogs, because servers rely primarily on view searches to look up information in them. An exception is if a server running the LDAP service uses an Extended Directory Catalog; in this case, create a full-text index for the directory catalog if LDAP users use something other than names in search filters, since these types of LDAP searches use the full-text index.

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