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Detailed Replication Tasks
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For example, you could create an entry
cn=Replication Manager,cn=config
under the
cn=config
tree on the consumer server. This would be the supplier bind
DN that all suppliers would use to bind to the consumer to perform replication
operations.
To create the supplier bind DN entry:
1.
On each server that acts as a consumer in replication agreements, create a
special entry that the supplier will use to bind.
This entry must not be part of the replicated database. For example, you could
use
cn=Replication Manager,cn=config
. Make sure you create the entry
with the attributes required by the authentication method you specify in the
replication agreement.
2.
Specify a
userPassword
attribute-value pair.
3.
If you have enabled the password expiration policy or intend to do so in the
future, you must remember to disable it to prevent replication from failing due
to passwords expiring. To disable the password expiration policy on the
userPassword
attribute, add the
passwordExpirationTime
attribute with a
value of 20380119031407Z, which means that the password will never expire.
When you configure a replica as a consumer, you must use the DN of this entry to
define the supplier bind DN.
Configuring Supplier Settings
On any server that holds the master copy of a replica, you must specify supplier
settings.
NOTE
Avoid creating entries under the
cn=config
entry in the
dse.ldif
file. The
cn=config
entry in the simple, flat
dse.ldif
configuration
file is not stored in the same highly scalable database as regular
entries. As a result, if many entries, and particularly entries that are
likely to be updated frequently, are stored under
cn=config
,
performance will probably suffer.
However, although we recommend you do not store simple user
entries under
cn=config
for performance reasons, it can be useful
to store special user entries such as the Directory Manager entry or
Replication Manager (supplier bind DN) entry under
cn=config,
as this allows you to centralize configuration information.