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When extending ZCS, it is sometimes desirable to add additional LDAP schema to the OpenLDAP server shipped with ZCS.  Starting with the 6.0 release, the new config backend is used, which means that the traditional *.schema files are no longer in play.  Instead, LDIF-based versions of the old schema files are used by the new config backend.  This means that traditional "schema" files need to be converted to the new LDIF format for ZCS to be able to use them.  Fortunately, a utility to do this conversion is shipped with the ZCS OpenLDAP build, and the conversion process is fairly trivial.  It consists of creating a temporary configuration file to load the old schema, and specifying a path to write out the new file, using the slaptest binary to do the conversion.  Depending on the schema file needing conversion, it may be necessary to load additional schema files as part of the process.
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For example, to convert the Samba 3.3 schema into an LDIF-format for use with ZCS, one would do the following:
 
  mkdir -p /tmp/ldap/schema
  cd /tmp/ldap
  cp /path/to/samba.schema /tmp/ldap/schema
 
Create a file called "test.conf" with the following contents
 
  include /opt/zimbra/openldap/etc/openldap/schema/core.schema
  include /opt/zimbra/openldap/etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema
  include /opt/zimbra/openldap/etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema
  include /tmp/ldap/schema/samba.schema
 
Then execute
  /opt/zimbra/openldap/sbin/slaptest -f /tmp/ldap/test.conf -F /tmp/ldap
 
This will create a new "cn=config" directory in /tmp/ldap.  If you examine it's contents, you'll see:
  ls cn\=config
  cn=schema  cn=schema.ldif  olcDatabase={0}config.ldif  olcDatabase={-1}frontend.ldif
 
Note the cn=schema directory.  This directory will contain the converted files, so lets go there:
 
  cd cn\=config/cn\=schema
  ls
  cn={0}core.ldif  cn={1}cosine.ldif  cn={2}inetorgperson.ldif  cn={3}samba.ldif
 
As you can see, there is now a samba.ldif file, which is what has been converted from the Samba schema file.  The {#} format indicates the load order of the files in the cn=schema directory.  I.e., cn={3}samba.ldif would be the fourth file loaded.  However, ZCS itself already ships with a number of files to be loaded in this directory, so we'll need to renumber the cn={3}samba.ldif file.  Zimbra reserves the first 10 slots (cn={0}... to cn=(9)) for internal use.  OpenLDAP will operate correctly even if the entire load sequence is fully populated (i.e., if it goes from cn={4} to cn={10} with no schema in between).  So the cn={3}samba.ldif file will need to be moved out of the ZCS reserved range.

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