Creating a custom OID ldap attribute to use in a ldapsearch

When wanting to implement your own attribute on which you like to perform a exact search. You will need to add the EQUALITY attribute and on top of this you need to index this attribute for it to be used in a ldapsearch. Firstoff we will create a custom attribute using an EQUALITY attribute.


[oracle@ssoserver]$ ldapadd -h ssoserver -p 389 -D "cn=orcladmin" -q -f ldap_contactId_creation.ldap


add: attributetypes
attributetypes: ( 99.2.1.1.1.1 NAME 'contactId' EQUALITY integerMatch SYNTAX '1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.36' )

After creation of the attribute as described above , you can use this command to create an index on it :


[oracle@ssoserver]$ ./catalog connect="OIDDB" add=true attribute=contractid
This tool can only be executed if you know database user password for OID
Enter OID Password ::

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Creating indexes on catalog table "contractId" and collecting statistics...
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oracle@ssoserver]$


Now you are able to use this custom attribute in your search pattern. Only records which are equal (EQUALITY) will be returned using the index.