Example: Replication in the XYZ Corporation (Sun Directory Services 3.1 Administration Guide)

Sun Directory Services 3.1 Administration Guide

Example: Replication in the XYZ Corporation

Table 3-1 shows that some of the naming contexts in the XYZ Corporation are held on several servers in order to provide faster access and to reduce the connection costs by keeping information local.

One server holds the master copy, the others are replicas.

Table 3-2 shows the replication strategy for each naming context in the XYZ Corporation directory service.

Table 3-2 Replication Strategy for the XYZ Corporation


Naming Context	Master Server	Slave Server
ou=People, ou=XYZ, c=US	boston	london
ou=Services, ou=XYZ, c=US	boston	london
ou=HR, ou=XYZ, c=US	boston	london
l=Boston, ou=XYZ, c=US	boston
l=New-York, ou=XYZ, c=US	newyork
ou=US-RD, ou=XYZ, c=US	newyork	paris
ou=Sales-Mktg, ou=XYZ, c=US	newyork	paris
l=London, ou=XYZ, c=US	london
l=Paris, ou=XYZ, c=US	paris
ou=Eur-RD, ou=XYZ, c=US	paris	newyork

The replication method used to replicate changes between master servers and slave servers is LDAP.