Supervising the Network

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Managing the NetWare Directory Services Tree
About NetWare Directory Services
About NetWare Directory Services
NetWare Directory Services (NDS) is a distributed database that provides
global access to all network resources regardless of where they are located
physically. Users log in to a multiserver network and view the entire
network as a single information system.
This single information system is the basis for increased productivity and
reduced administrative costs. You can manage NDS by using the utilities
and programs described in this chapter.
The following utilities and programs help you maintain the NDS database.
• The Partition Management utilities allow you to distribute your NDS database by
placing replicas of partitions of the database on different servers.
The PARTMGR text utility and NetWare Administrator are available to help you
manage the database partitions and replicas. You can also remove NDS from a
server using the DS Install utility.
• The UIMPORT utility allows you to import information from an existing
database (any database capable of converting records to an ASCII file will work)
to the NDS database. Use this utility and your database records to create, delete,
and update User objects and their properties.
• The DS Repair utility checks and repairs local portions of the database, similar to
the way VREPAIR fixes volumes on a server.
• dsadmin allows you to determine whether NDS synchronization processes are
complete and to diagnose NDS errors.