Creating The Supplier Bind Dn Entry - Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

NOTE It is very important to create and configure all replicas before you
attempt to create a replication agreement. This also means that
when you create the replication agreement, you can choose to
initialize consumers immediately.
These sections contain a description of the tasks you need to perform to configure
replication:
•

Creating the Supplier Bind DN Entry

• Configuring Supplier Settings
• Configuring a Read-Write Replica
• Configuring a Read-Only Replica
• Configuring a Hub Supplier
• Creating a Replication Agreement
Creating the Supplier Bind DN Entry
A critical part of setting up replication is to create the entry, referred to as the
Replication Manager or supplier bind DN entry, that the suppliers will 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 supplier) 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, you could create an entry
under the
cn=config
DN that all supplier servers would use to bind to the consumer to perform
replication operations.
cn=Replication Manager,cn=config
tree on the consumer server. This would be the supplier bind
Handling Complex Replication Configurations
Chapter 8 Managing Replication 313