Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 Administrator's Guide

11.1. Forcing Replication Updates from the Console
To ensure that replication updates are sent immediately when a consumer or a supplier in a
multi-master replication configuration comes back online after a period of time, do the following
on the supplier server that holds the most recent version of the directory information:
1. In the Directory Server Console, click the Configuration tab, expand the Replication folder
and database nodes, and select the replication agreement corresponding to the replica to
update.
2. Right click the replication agreement, and choose Send Updates Now from the drop-down
list.
This initiates replication toward the server that holds the information that needs to be updated.
11.2. Forcing Replication Updates from the Command-Line
From the consumer that requires updating, run a script that prompts the supplier to send
replication updates immediately. This script is shown in Example 8.1, “Replicate_Now Script
Example”.
Copy this example script and name it something like replicate_now.sh. Substitute the actual
values for the variables listed in Example 8.1, “Replicate_Now Script Example”.
NOTE
This script must be run manually since it cannot be configured to run
automatically as soon as the server, which was offline, comes back online again.
#!/bin/sh
SUP_HOST=supplier_hostname
SUP_PORT=supplier_portnumber
SUP_MGRDN=supplier_directoryManager
SUP_MGRPW=supplier_directoryManager_password
MY_HOST=consumer_hostname
MY_PORT=consumer_portnumber
ldapsearch -1 -T -h ${SUP_HOST} -p ${SUP_PORT} -D "${SUP_MGRDN}" \
-w ${SUP_MGRPW} -b "cn=mapping tree, cn=config"
\"(&(objectclass=nsds5replicationagreement)(nsDS5ReplicaHost=${MY_HOST})
\(nsDS5ReplicaPort=${MY_PORT}))" dn nsds5ReplicaUpdateSchedule >
/tmp/$$
cat /tmp/$$ |awk 'BEGIN { s = 0 }/^dn: / { print $0;print "changetype:
modify";print
"replace: nsds5ReplicaUpdateSchedule";print
"nsds5ReplicaUpdateSchedule: 0000-2359
0123456";print "-";print "";print $0;print "changetype: modify";
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