To install Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3 using native packages, you must have 6.0, 6.1, or 6.2 installed on your computer and then upgrade to 6.3. Refer to the following procedure to install Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3 successfully.
Install Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.0, 6.1, or 6.2. In this guide, the installation instructions for Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.2 are shown.
On Windows, you cannot install Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.2 directly, so you must install version 6.0 then directly upgrade to 6.3.
Upgrade all the shared components to successfully upgrade to Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3. For detailed information, refer to To Upgrade Shared Components Using Patches.
Upgrade your Directory Server Enterprise Edition installation to 6.3 by applying the respective patches as mentioned in To Upgrade Directory Server Enterprise Edition Using Native Packages.
You can install Directory Service Control Center, Directory Server, and Directory Proxy Server on the same host but in the following procedure it is shown as if all the three components are being installed on different computers. If you install all the three components on the same computer, in the components selection screen shown in the following procedure, select all the three components to install.
Fully qualified hostname of the system where you install Directory Server - ds.example.com
Cacao common agent container port number to access from Directory Service Control Center - Default: 11162
File system paths where you create Directory Server instances - /local/ds/
Create instances only on local file systems, never on network–mounted file systems such as NFS.
LDAP port number -- Default: 389 - root installation; 1389 - non-root installation
LDAP/SSL port number -- Default: 636 - root installation; 1636 - non-root installation
Directory Manager DN -- Default: cn=Directory Manager
Directory Manager password -- Must be at least 8 characters long
Base suffix DN -- dc=example,dc=com
