Supervising the Network

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Managing the NetWare Directory Services Tree
Repairing the NetWare Directory Database
Some NDS database problems are not fatal and NDS continues to operate.
But if the database becomes corrupted, you get a message on the console
that the server could not open the local database. In this case, run Directory
Services Repair or re-install the NDS database to fix the problem so that the
database can be opened.
The Directory Services Repair utility affects only the parts of the database
that are stored on the server where you run it. To fix the entire database, you
must run the utility on each server that contains a part of the database.
The Directory Services Repair utility changes inconsistent objects to
Unknown objects when they do not have mandatory properties or are invalid
in other respects (for example, their properties do not meet minimum
requirements for an object type). Unknown objects can be deleted but cannot
be changed back to their original object type.
In NetWare 4.1, Unknown objects are represented by question mark icons in
NetWare Administrator.
Directory Services Repair Options
After you have installed NetWare Services and loaded Directory Services
Repair, you can use the following options at the server console:
Option Use to
Unattended Full
Repair
Automatically perform all possible repair operations to
the Directory database that do not require operator
assistance.
Time
Synchronization
Contact all servers within this server’s local database to
request information about NDS and time synchronization.
If a replica of the root partition is contained on this server,
then all servers in the Directory tree are contacted.
Report
Synchronization
Status
Determine the status of synchronization for every replica
in the replica table for the Directory tree.
The status of synchronization informs you of the current
condition of the Directory tree.