The server name attribute provides a server name that will be visible to applications that search the directory with ct_ds_lookup.
The name can be any string that is CS_MAX_DS_STRING or fewer bytes long. By convention, the name attribute should match the name the server uses for itself (for Adaptive Servers, the local server name is given by sp_addname).
Do not confuse a server’s name attribute with the name used to locate the directory entry. The latter is the fully qualified name for the directory entry, expressed in the name syntax of the directory provider. ct_connect uses the fully qualified name to find the directory entry. The name attribute is an arbitrary string value provided for the convenience of directory users. To avoid confusion, the directory administrator should ensure that the name attribute at least partially matches the server’s fully qualified name (for example, the attribute value could be the entry’s common name).
When the directory provider is the interfaces file,
the value of the name attribute is the same as the entry’s
name.
