Supervising the Network

4-80
Managing the NetWare Directory Services Tree
Repairing the NetWare Directory Database
Prerequisites
• Access to the server console
• All servers in a Directory tree using the same time source
• Administer NetWare Server permission in NetWare 4.1/9000
Procedure
1 Run the dsrepair utility.
2 Choose “Time synchronization.”
A window is available to allow you to observe the operations in process.
Following the operation, the Directory Services Repair log is displayed within a
full-screen text editor. You can annotate or modify the Directory Services Repair
log if you want to.
The Directory Services Repair log contains the following fields:
Field Indicates
Server Name All the server names known to the local Directory database.
If this server contains a replica of the root partition, then
this list contains all the servers in the tree.
Version The version of NDS running on the server.
Replica Depth The replica depth field reports “-1” if no replicas are stored
on the server or “0” if the server contains a replica of the
root partition. A positive integer indicates how many
objects down from the root the first replica is on that server.
Time Source The time server type. This information helps you determine
whether time synchronization for all the trees in the server
is configured properly.
All servers in a tree must be using the same time source.
For example, if there are two Single time servers, you know
that all servers in the tree cannot be polling the same time
source and there is a configuration problem.
Time in Sync The local time synchronization status on the server. The
status should be Yes. If it is No, then the server is not able to
contact its time source.