Supervising the Network

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Managing the NetWare Directory Services Tree
Creating and Managing Directory Services Partitions
Merging Partitions Using NetWare Administrator
Prerequisites
• A 386 or later workstation and NetWare Administrator
• A minimum of 6 MB of memory available on the workstation
• The Supervisor object right to the object and its parent partition
Procedure
1 From the Windows Program Manager, click on the “NetWare Administrator”
icon.
2 Choose “Partition Manager” from the “Tools” menu.
3 To locate the container object that you want to merge with the parent partition,
browse the “Partition Manager” screen.
If the partition object does not appear in the window, browse the Directory tree
by either selecting an object to see its subordinates or by choosing the arrow key
to move toward the Root. Your current context appears in the upper left corner
of the screen.
For information about moving around in the “Partition Manager” screen and
selecting objects, choose the “Help” button.
4 Select the partition you want to merge.
5 Choose “Merge Partition.”
6 To merge the partition with its parent, choose “Yes.”
The partition is 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.
The replicas of the partitions are also merged.
A partition with no parent merges with the Root partition.
Additional Information