[389-users] Automatic master/consumer initialization

[Gerrard Geldenhuis]

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>From: 389-users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [389-users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] on behalf of Rich Megginson [rmeggins at redhat.com]
>Sent: 24 August 2010 02:31
>To: General discussion list for the 389 Directory server project.
>Subject: Re: [389-users] Automatic master/consumer initialization
>
>Gerrard Geldenhuis wrote:
>> Hi
>> Is there any difference between right clicking on a replication agreement just created and selecting the Initialize Consumer or letting "nature" go its course and >>letting replication happen in the next "cycle".
>>
>> Up until now I have created replication agreements using the GUI, but I have now started doing it via ldif files. If I don't immediately run:
>> dn: cn=%repl-agreement-name%,cn=replica,cn=dc\3dCompany,cn=mapping tree,cn=config
>> changetype: modify
>> replace: nsds5beginreplicarefresh
>> nsds5beginreplicarefresh: start
>>
>> It seems to start on its own anyway. Having checked the data nothing looks wrong so I thought I would just double check.
>>
>Doing nsds5beginreplicarefresh: start does a replica init.  A consumer
>must be initialized before a supplier can begin updating it.  If you
>have already initialized a consumer from another supplier/master, you
>don't need to initialize it again.

Thanks, I just realized that I was seeing the same data on all servers because of the way that I accessed the console remotely, which is why I thought that it had automatically initialized itself.

Regards

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