The DB2 Version 6 Control center can be used as a central control point, if it is running on a system where an LDAP client is installed. All the database instances registered on the LDAP server will be cataloged automatically on the client. They will show up in Control Center as regular nodes on the navigator tree. These databases can be managed the same way as the other databases that you have cataloged on your machine (except the ADD DATABASE option is not yet available in this release). Of course, the local DB2 system needs to be set-up with the same network protocols (for example, TCP/IP, NETBIOS, or IPX/SPX) in order to talk to the databases on other database servers.
To administer an LDAP database, select the database and click mouse button 2. A pop-up window lists the functions which you can perform. For more information on LDAP, see Appendix T, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Directory Services.