Smart Referrals - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.2 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual

You configure the default referral to point to a Directory Server that has more
knowledge about the distribution of your directory. Default referrals for the
server are set by the
nsslapd-referral
database in your directory installation are set by the
attribute in the database entry in the configuration. These attribute values are
stored in the
dse.ldif
For information on configuring default referrals, see the Netscape Directory
Server Administrator's Guide.

Smart Referrals

Directory Server also allows you to configure your directory to use smart
referrals. Smart referrals allow you to associate a directory entry or directory tree
to a specific LDAP URL. Associating directory entries to specific LDAP URLs
allows you to refer requests to any of the following:
• Same namespace contained on a different server
• Different namespaces on a local server
• Different namespaces on the same server
Unlike default referrals, the smart referrals are stored within the directory itself.
For information on configuring and managing smart referrals, refer to the
Netscape Directory Server Administrator's Guide.
For example, the directory for the American office of
contains the following directory branch point:
ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
You redirect all requests on this branch to the
office of
example.com
entry itself. This smart referral appears as follows:
ou=people
ldap://europe.example.com:389/ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
Any requests made to people branch of the American directory are redirected to
the European directory. An illustration of this smart referral follows:
attribute. Default referrals for each
file.
.
Corporation by specifying a smart referral on the
About Knowledge References
nsslapd-referral
example.com
branch of the European
ou=people
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