NetWare Directory Services

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Managing NetWare Directory Services

PARTMGR

Use this utility at a client workstation to

• Distribute your NDS database.

• Manage partitions and replicas.

The following ﬁgure shows the functions available in PARTMGR.

Figure 9-1 Functions in PARTMGR

Using PARTMGR

You can perform the following tasks by choosing “Manage Partitions” from

the “Partition Administration” menu:

• Browse up the Directory tree to the parent container

• Browse down the Directory tree to see the Server objects in containers

• View a list of the replicas stored on a server

• View or modify a partition’s replicas

• View or modify the replicas of the current container object (if that container

object is a partition)

• Create a new partition with a container object as the root of the partition

• Join a partition with its parent partition

Allows you to:

Create partitions

Join partitions

Add replicas

Delete replicas

Modify replica types

Rebuild replicas

Allows you to set your current

context