Supervising the Network

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Managing the NetWare Directory Services Tree
Creating and Managing Directory Services Partitions
Sending Updates to Other Replicas
Although NDS automatically synchronizes the directory data of replicas (so
that each replica contains the most recent data), you can manually start the
process to synchronize (update) the directory data of replicas, if necessary.
You should use the Directory Services Repair utility to discover whether the
data in some replicas is out of sync with the master replica. If the data is out
of sync, you would want to send updates to those replicas manually. The
data in the other replicas would be updated and the directory data of each
replica would be synchronized.
You can send updates to other replicas using NetWare Administrator or
PARTMGR. Both procedures are documented in this section.
Sending Updates 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 at the root of the partition for the replicas
to which you want to send updates
Procedure
1 From the Windows Program Manager, click on the “NetWare Administrator”
icon.
2 From the “Tools” menu, choose “Partition Manager.”
3 Browse the “Partition Manager” screen to locate the partition whose replicas you
want to update.
If the container object does not appear in the window, browse the Directory tree
either by selecting an object to see its subordinates or by selecting 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 and choose “Replicas.”
5 From the “Replicas” screen, select which replica you want to send updates from
(the one that contains updated data) and choose “Send Updates to Other