After the LDAP server has been configured with the proper DIT and schema, you need to populate the DIT with data. The source of the data are the /etc files in multiple systems. Consider the following methods for populating the DIT:
Merge the /etc files of a specific data type into a single file for that data type. For example, merge all /etc/passwd files from different systems into a single /etc/passwd file. You can populate the server from the single host that stores all the merged /etc files.
Populate the server by using the appropriate command from each LDAP client system that accesses the directory server.