Smart Referrals - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 7.0 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual

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:
You redirect all requests on this branch to the
office of
example.com
entry itself. This smart referral appears as follows:
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:
Corporation by specifying a smart referral on the
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