Configuring A Hub Supplier - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

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Detailed Replication Tasks
Note that the supplier bind DN corresponds to a privileged user, because it is
not subject to access control.
Specify any supplier servers to which you want to refer updates.
7.
By default, all updates are first referred to the supplier servers that you specify
here. If you specify none, updates are referred to the supplier servers that have
a replication agreement that includes the current replica.
Automatic referrals assume that clients will bind over a regular connection,
and therefore, are of the form
bind to the supplier using SSL, you can use this field to specify a referral of the
form
connections.
In the case of cascading replication, referrals are automatically sent to the hub
supplier, which in turn refers the request to the original master. Therefore, you
should set a referral to the original master to replace the automatically
generated referral.
Click Save to save the replication settings for the replica.
8.

Configuring a Hub Supplier

In a cascading replication environment, configure the hub supplier as follows:
On the Directory Server Console, click the Configuration tab.
1.
For information on starting the Directory Server Console, "Using the Directory
Server Console," on page 32.
In the left navigation tree, expand the Replication folder and highlight the
2.
database to replicate.
The Replica Settings tab is displayed in the right navigation window.
Check the Enable Replica checkbox.
3.
In the Replica Role section, select the Hub radio button.
4.
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Click Add. You supplier bind DN will appear in the Current Supplier DNs
or entry DNs to which the supplier's certificate is mapped field directly
above.
Repeat the operation for every supplier bind DN you want to include in
the list. Click Save when you have finished.
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ldap://servername:port
where the
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ldaps
. If you want clients to
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