Supervising the Network

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Managing the NetWare Directory Services Tree
Creating and Managing Directory Services Partitions
NOTE: You can also limit rights to PARTMGR (in DOS) by restricting rights to
PARTMGR.EXE or by removing it from SYS:PUBLIC and placing it in your path
or in a directory to which you have a search drive mapped.
Creating a New Partition
A partition consists of one or more container objects and their associated
leaf objects. It cannot contain only leaf objects. The container that is the first
object in the partition is called the “root” of the partition.
To create a new partition, you split the parent partition to result in two
partitions. The new partition becomes a child partition.
For example, if you select an Organizational Unit and choose to create it as a
new partition, you are choosing to split the Organizational Unit from its
parent partition (Root, for example, which is always a partition). The
following things happen:
• The Organizational Unit you selected becomes the root of a new partition.
• The replicas of the parent partition remain on the same servers.
• Information for the new partition migrates from the parent partition’s replicas to
the new partition’s replicas.
• The master replica of the new partition is stored on the same server as the master
replica of the parent partition.
Creating a partition may take some time, since all the replicas need to be
synchronized with the new partition information.
When you create a new partition, the utility you use will inform you that the
partition is created successfully, but the actual creating is still completing on
the servers. You will need to wait a while before performing another
partition operation.
Partitions can be created using PARTMGR or NetWare Administrator in
DOS or Windows. Both procedures are described in this section.