Supervising the Network

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Managing the NetWare Directory Services Tree

Creating and Managing Directory Services Partitions

A master replica is stored on the server where the parent partition’s master

replica resides. An icon appears next to the Organization (O) or Organizational

Unit (OU) to show that the container is the root of a partition.

To see where the master replica is stored, select the Organization (O) or

Organizational Unit (OU) that you just partitioned, and then choose “View/Edit

Replicas.” The server name appears in the “Replicas Stored on Server” column,

and “Master” appears next to it in the “Type” column.

If you want to make additional replicas of this partition, see “Creating a

Replica” in this chapter.

Additional Information

Merging Partitions

You might want to merge two partitions if the Directory information in the

partitions is closely related. In other words, you would merge a partition

with its parent partition when you want to delete the partition without

deleting the objects in the partition.

Consider keeping partitions separate if the newly combined partitions would

be large, because large partitions slow down response time.

The partitions are merged when the process is completed on the servers. To

see that the icon of the partition you merged is gone (which signiﬁes that the

merge is complete), you need to refresh the screen by choosing the up-arrow

and then expanding the container again.

Merging a partition with its parent partition might take some time, since the

replicas need to be deleted and the parent replicas updated with the merging

partition information.

You can merge a subordinate partition with its parent partition using either

NetWare Administrator or PARTMGR. Both procedures are documented in

this section.

For more information about Refer to

Partitions “NetWare Directory partition,” “Partition

management,” and “Replica” in Concepts

Using PARTMGR

“PARTMGR” in Utilities Reference