Cisco Systems 5.2.x manual Synchronization Replication Overview, Synchronization Types

Chapter 6 Authentication and Federated Identity

Concepts

Synchronization (Replication) Overview

When you choose LDAP authentication or SSO authentication, user account data originates from your Active Directory server. However, Cisco DMS does not synchronize (replicate) this data automatically, in real time. Instead, we cache it. Therefore, you must resynchronize user account data when you think it is appropriate to do so. You can:

•Resynchronize manually.

•Schedule synchronizations to recur in the future at set intervals.

Note Features of Digital Signs and Show and Share Administration help you to manage user access privileges and permissions for Cisco DMS.

DMS-Admin synchronizes all user accounts in the Active Directory “user base” that your filter specifies, except users whose accounts are disabled on your Active Directory server.

Synchronization Types

We support four types of Active Directory synchronization in LDAP mode or federation mode.

Initial	Update	Overwrite	Delete
Runs a one-time	Runs an incremental,	Overwrites your local	Deletes your local copy
synchronization for a	fast update to find and	copy of user accounts	of user accounts that
new filter that you never	make up for any	that correspond to your	correspond to a defined
synchronized	differences between	Active Directory filter	Active Directory filter
previously.	user accounts that	with new copies of	and deletes the entry for
	match your	those user accounts. In	that filter from
	Active Directory filter	addition, deletes your	DMS-Admin.
	and your local copy of	local copy of each user
	those user accounts.	account that has been
		deleted from
		Active Directory since
		the last time that you ran
		a synchronization.

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