Operations to Perform on Slave Servers

On your slave servers, you must:

• Create the naming context for the replica on the server, as described in "To Create a Data Store", making sure that you select Slave mode

• Optionally, configure pull replication, if you have not configured the master to push updates automatically to replicas

• Optionally, set up a synchronization schedule -- see "To Start Replication At Any Time from a Slave Server"

You must ensure that the schema supported by the slave server is compatible with the entries that you want to replicate. If entries to replicate depend on changes made to the master server schema, you must make the same changes to the slave server schema. It is not sufficient to copy the subschema object class from the master server schema to the slave server schema.

To Configure Pull Replication

1. Create the replica naming context.

This procedure is described as part of the procedure for creating a data store in "To Create a Data Store". If the replica naming context exists, double-click on it in the Data Store section of the Admin Console.

1. In the Add Naming Context Window or the Modify Naming Context Window, set the Configure Pull Replication button to Yes.

   This displays additional replication parameter fields.

2. Select the attributes to replicate.

   If you select Include attributes or Exclude attributes, you must specify a list of attributes to include in or exclude from the replication.

3. Specify the following parameters for the master server:

   • The distinguished name and password that the slave server will supply when requesting authentication

   • The LDAP timeout on the bind request

   • The Bind method, security mode, and SSL key package if you select SSL as the security mode

4. Click OK to save your changes and dismiss the Add Naming Context window.

   In the Data Store section of the Admin Console main window, an extra set of controls is displayed. These controls enable you to set up a synchronization schedule on the slave server, and to start replication at any time from the slave.

To Set Up a Replication Synchronization Schedule for a Slave Server

1. Go to the Data Store section of the Admin Console.

2. From the Request Updates from Master menu button select Enabled.

   A Day menu button and Time menu button are displayed.

3. Select the day and time at which you want replication to occur periodically.

4. Click Apply in the Admin Console main window to save your changes.

   This enables the dspulld command.

To Start Replication At Any Time from a Slave Server

In the Data Store section of the Admin Console main window, highlight the replica that you want to synchronize with the master, and click the Request updates now button.