Knowing how to properly use the eDirectory management tools is the first step toward understanding strategies for preventing problems. Understanding effective techniques for using these tools is as important as ”if not more important than ”understanding how the tools themselves work.
This chapter takes a look at some effective techniques for managing single and multiple objects, using the Novell tools described in Chapter 12, "eDirectory Management Tools," and a few additional tools available from third-party vendors . After looking at basic techniques for single- and multiple-object modification, this chapter delves into advanced techniques of combining tools. These techniques overlap with some of the techniques presented for recovery in Chapter 10, "Programming for eDirectory," because good techniques are effective in both reactive maintenance and preventive maintenance.
