Cisco Systems 5.2.x manual Ldap Concepts, Guidelines for Synchronization, Sync Type Best Practices

Chapter 6 Authentication and Federated Identity

Concepts

Guidelines for Synchronization

We recommend that you synchronize your LDAP bookmarks periodically. Synchronization ensures that user and group membership associations are current and correct.

Sync
Type	Best Practices
Initial	The Initial option is CPU-intensive for your DMM appliance and might lower performance
	temporarily. We recommend that you use it during off-peakhours only.
Update	We recommend that you use the Update option whenever:

•A new user account in Active Directory should have login access to DMM or Show and Share.

•User attributes1 change in Active Directory for a user account in DMM or Show and Share.

•A user account is disabled in Active Directory and should be deleted from DMM and Show and Share.

Overwrite Note	The Overwrite option is CPU-intensive for your DMM appliance and might lower its
	performance temporarily. We recommend that you use this option during off-peak hours only.

•After a user account is deleted from Active Directory, this option deletes the corresponding user account from DMM and Show and Share.

•After a user account is associated to a new first name, last name, or username, this option overwrites the outdated user account attributes.

Delete

Caution	The Delete option is destructive by design. We advise that you use it sparingly and with great
		caution. Among other effects, your deletion of an LDAP bookmark can affect user access to videos
		in Show and Share.
Note	Typically, the deletion process takes about 1 minute to finish. However, when there are more than
	50,000 users in the Active Directory database, this process might run in the background and take about

30minutes to finish. In this case, the user interface in DMS-Admin can show that a bookmark was deleted even though the actual process has not finished. If you observe this behavior, simply allow 30 minutes for the operation to finish.

1.Attributes that you entered on the Manage Attributes property sheet in DMS-Admin.

Related Topics

•Manage LDAP Attributes, page 6-26

LDAP Concepts

•Understand LDAP Attributes, page 6-15

•Guidelines for LDAP Filters, page 6-15

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