Supervising the Network

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Managing the NetWare Directory Services Tree

Viewing and Managing NDS Synchronization Status

This section explains the NDS Trace feature that you can use from the server

console. You should use this feature to do the following:

• Determine whether NDS synchronization processes are complete.

• Diagnose NDS errors. These errors may appear when you are manipulating NDS

objects with the administration utilities.

You can identify NDS-related system messages by their numbering: –601

through –699 and F966 through F9FE.

NOTE: As with all NetWare system messages, an NDS system message does not necessarily

indicate an error condition, but may simply indicate general NDS status. For more

information, see the specific message in System Messages.

Prerequisite

• Access to a “Terminal” window

Procedure

1 Turn on the NDS Trace screen by typing the following at the server:

dsadmin -d on

The messages are displayed to the console. Two types of messages are

particularly important:

• “All processed = YES” indicates that all pending NDS synchronization

actions have been processed.

• Messages numbered –601 through –699 and F966 through F9FE indicate

NDS status or errors. For explanations and suggested actions, see System

Messages.

dsadmin -d on

dsadmin -f on

By default, the messages are copied to the ﬁle DSTRACE.DBG in the

SYS:SYSTEM directory when you execute both commands.

Copying NDS Trace messages to a ﬁle may be helpful if you need to ask

someone else for diagnostic help. You must activiate dsadmin -d on prior to

executing dsadmin -f on.