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Sun OpenDS Standard Edition 2.0 Architectural Reference

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The Directory Server Access Control Model

Understanding the Directory Server Schema

Index Databases

Understanding Directory Server Plug-Ins

Directory Server Replication

Overview of the Directory Server Replication Architecture

Basic Replication Architecture

Replication Servers

Replication Change Numbers

Replication Server State

Operation Dependencies

How Replication Works

Directory Server Change Processing

Change Replay

Auto Repair

Directory Server Crashes

Replication Server Crashes

Historical Information and Conflict Resolution

What is a Replication Conflict?

Resolving Modify Conflicts

Resolving Naming Conflicts

Purging Historical Information

Schema Replication

Schema Replication Architecture

Replication Status

Replication Status Definitions

Degraded Status

Full Update Status and Bad Generation ID Status

Replication Groups

Replication Server Selection

Replication Groups in a Multi-Data Center Deployment

Assured Replication

Assured Replication Modes

Safe Data Mode

Safe Read Mode

Safe Read Mode and Replication Groups

Assured Replication Connection Algorithm

Assured Replication and Replication Status

Assured Replication Monitoring

Root Users and the Privilege Subsystem

Supported Controls and Operations

Overview of the Directory Server Replication Architecture

The directory server replication model is a loosely consistent, multi-master model. In other words, all directory servers in a replicated topology can process both read and write operations.

Replication is built around a centralized publish-subscribe architecture. Each directory server communicates with a central service, and uses the central service to publish its own changes and to receive notification about changes on other directory servers. This central service is called the replication service.

The replication service can be made highly available by using multiple server instances running on multiple hosts. Within the replication architecture, a server instance that provides the replication service is called a replication server. A server instance that provides the directory service is called a directory server.

The topics in this section describe the replication architecture and the various elements that make up this architecture.