Supervising the Network

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Managing the NetWare Directory Services Tree
Creating and Managing Directory Services Partitions
Having too many replicas may slow down your network because it will be busy
synchronizing.
• You can have only one master replica.
Because partition and replica management is such a vital part of managing
your network, you should read Chapter 9 , “Managing NetWare Directory
Services,” of Introduction to NetWare Directory Services before you use the
Partition Manager utilities.
Additional Information
Considerations Before Creating Partitions and Replicas
This section provides a list of items for you to consider. We strongly
recommend that you fill out the checklist in Appendix A of Installation
Handbook so that you or another network administrator will know what
partitions and replicas are stored on your servers in case you should ever
need to restore NDS.
Before you create your partitions and replicas, or immediately after they are
all set up, ask yourself
• How many servers are on the network?
• What are the names of those servers?
• If you are creating partitions and replicas on more than one server, how are they
For more information about Refer to
Bindery services
“Bindery services” in Concepts
Partition Manager utilities “PARTMGR” and “NetWare
Administrator” in Utilities Reference
Partitions “Partition, Directory Services,”
“Partition management,” and “Replica” in
Concepts
Planning and using partitions Chapter 5, “Planning NetWare Directory
Services Implementation,” of
Introduction to NetWare Directory
Services