CONFIGURING
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
About this task
Because a server uses full-text searches rather than view lookups to find any of the following information in a condensed directory catalog, it is 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.
Procedure
1. Recreate the full-text index manually if you delete a full-text index from a condensed directory catalog, or use the file system to make a copy of the catalog.
2. Because only client users use a condensed directory catalog, conserve disk space by deleting full-text indexes on any server replicas.
Full-text indexing extended directory catalogs
It is 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.
Create a full-text index for an extended directory catalog if LDAP users use something other than names in search filters, because these types of LDAP searches use the full-text index.
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