Netscape NETSCAPE DIRECTORY SERVER 6.1 - ADMINISTRATOR, Administrator'S Manual

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Detailed Replication Tasks
290 Netscape Directory Server Administrator’s Guide • August 2002
Detailed Replication Tasks
This section contains a description of the tasks you need to perform to configure
replication.
• Creating the Supplier Bind DN Entry
• Configuring Supplier Settings
• Configuring a Read-Write Replica
• Configuring a Read-Only Replica
• Configuring a Hub Supplier
• Creating a Replication Agreement
Creating the Supplier Bind DN Entry
A critical part of setting up replication is to create the entry, referred to as the
Replication Manager or supplier bind DN entry, that the suppliers will use to bind
to the consumer servers to perform replication updates.
The supplier bind DN must meet the following criteria:
• It must be unique
• It must be created on the consumer server (or hub supplier) and not on the
supplier server.
• It must correspond to an actual entry on the consumer server
• It must be created on every server that receives updates from another server
• It must not be part of the replicated database for security reasons
• It must be defined in the replication agreement on the supplier server
NOTE
It is very important to create and configure all replicas before you
attempt to create a replication agreement. This also means that
when you create the replication agreement, you can choose to
initialize consumers immediately.