Configuring A Read-Only Replica - Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Handling Complex Replication Configurations
In the Directory Server Console, select the Configuration tab.
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For information on starting the Directory Server Console, see "Using the
Directory Server Console," on page 34.
In the left navigation tree, expand the Replication folder, and highlight the
2.
database to replicate.
The Replication tab is displayed on the right pane.
Check the Enable Replica checkbox.
3.
In the Replica Role section, select the Single Master or Multi-Master radio
4.
button.
In the Common Settings section, specify a Replica ID (an integer between
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and
The replica ID must be unique for a given suffix. Make sure you specify an ID
that is different from the IDs used for read-write replicas on this server and
on other servers.
In the Common Settings section, specify a purge delay in the "Purge delay"
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field.
This option indicates how often the state information stored in the replicated
entries is purged.
Click Save to save the replication settings for the database.
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Configuring a Read-Only Replica

For each read-only replica on the consumer server, you must specify the
appropriate replication settings.
In the Directory Server Console, click the Configuration tab.
1.
For information on starting the Directory Server Console, see "Using the
Directory Server Console," on page 34.
In the left navigation tree, expand the Replication folder, and then highlight
2.
the replica database.
The Replica Settings tab is displayed on the right pane.
Check the Enable Replica checkbox.
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In the Replica Role section, select the Dedicated Consumer option.
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