HP UX Red Hat Direry Server Software manual Creating the Supplier Bind DN Entry

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Creating the Supplier Bind DN Entry

For information on setting up cascading replication, see Section 6, “Configuring Cascading Replication”.

NOTE

Multi-master and cascading replication can be combined. For example, in the multi-master scenario illustrated in Figure 8.2, “Multi-Master Replication (Two Masters)”, server C and server D could be hub servers that would replicate to any number of consumer servers.

3. Creating the Supplier Bind DN Entry

A critical part of setting up replication is to create the entry, called the replication manager or supplier bind DN entry, that the suppliers 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) 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.

For example, the entry cn=Replication Manager,cn=config can be created under the cn=config tree on the consumer server. This would be the supplier bind DN that all supplier servers would use to bind to the consumer to perform replication operations.

NOTE

Avoid creating simple entries under the cn=config entry in the dse.ldif file. The cn=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 suffer. However, although Red Hat recommends not storing simple user entries under cn=config for performance reasons, it can be useful to store special user entries such as the Directory

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