NetWare Directory Services

8-8
Implementing NetWare Directory Services
Completing General Tasks and Guidelines for All Networks
If, for example, network supervisors in three different cities have supervisor
rights over the same container object (bindery context), each of them can
assign rights that the other two would disagree with.
• To decrease traffic over WAN links
If, for example, users in London and Tokyo had their User objects in a
bindery context served by a server in New York, every data transmission
would take place over WAN links. This would likely result in decreased
performance and create the potential for other problems.
To enable bindery services for objects within a container object, you need to
set a bindery context to that container. To specify a bindery context for a
server, use the System Administration Manager (SAM) or nwcm utility.
10 Optimize and manage Directory trees.
Use PARTMGR (or the Partition Manager option in NetWare Administrator) to
manage the Directory databases on your network.
Partitions. Create most of your partitions at lower levels of the Directory tree.
Workgroup boundaries generally determine the number of partitions required in
a tree. You should partition your tree in relation to the use and physical locations
of network resources. You should create partitions only if they provide better
performance or fault tolerance to the network and tree.
Before performing any partition operation, ensure that the state of
synchronization for all servers affected by the operation is stable. The following
table provides recommendations for determining which partitions will be
affected by what operation:
Replicas. Do not create too many replicas of the [Root] partition and other
parent partitions. Otherwise, you force NDS to keep track of more child partition
references than necessary. The appropriate number of replicas for any given
partition depends on your environment.
Partition Operation Partitions Affected
Create, add, delete a partition Target partitions
Change the replica type Target partitions
Rebuild any partition replica Target partitions
Join partitions Parent and child partitions