Migration old style slapd.conf to new slapd-config

Today i decided to migrate my openldap configuration from traditional slapd.conf file to new slapd-config structure.In new slapd-config structure it is possible to apply changes in running ldap server, i mean there is no need to restart ldap server for configuration changes. As traditional slapd.conf have following format


# global configuration directives



# backend definition

backend



# first database definition & config directives

database



# second database definition & config directives

database



New slapd-config structure create .ldif files that store configuration in ldap format.

My existing slapd.conf have following domain definition

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access to * by none

Include ...

pidfile ...

argsfile ...

database bdb

suffix dc=vk,dc=com

rootdn cn=Manager,dc=vk,dc=com

rootpw secret

database config

rootpw config

index objectClass eq

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Note: config database added for migration purpose.

I migrated this configuration into new slapd.d (slapd-config). For this i taken following steps

Created slapd.d folder

root#mkdir /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.d

Apply slaptest command

root# slaptest -f /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.conf -F /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.d

After successful execution of command i noticed that one file and one folder created inside directory /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.d

folder name : cn=config and filename: cn=config.ldif

Inside cn=config folder a number of other files created.