Preparing Sun LDAP Directory Server 5.2 Suffix for Replication
In order for a directory server instance to participate in multi-master replication, each suffix that is to participate in MMR needs to be configured with a unique (at the very least among MMR for the suffix) integer that identifies this master in MMR. The numbers can range from 0 to 65535 to identify these MMR instances.
To identify the type of replica this instance should be, we need to address the nsDS5ReplicaType attribute. A value of 2 means this instance will be a consumer instance only, a value of 3 means this instance will be a read/write (master) instance. Values of 0 and 1 should not be used. More information about the nsDS5ReplicaType attribute.
dn: cn=replica, cn=”suffixname“,cn=mapping tree,cn=config
changetype: add
objectClass: nsDS5Replica
objectClass: top
cn: replica
nsDS5ReplicaBindDN: cn=replication manager, cn=replication, cn=config
nsDS5ReplicaRoot: suffixname
nsDS5Flags: 1
nsDS5ReplicaType: 3
nsDS5ReplicaId: uniqueidentifier
Create a file with the above contents and save it to disk (I saved mine as /tmp/enablereplsuffix.ldif).
Update your directory server instance via ldapmodify to enable replication to this suffix on this host.
/usr/bin/ldapmodify -h host -p port -D ‘rootdn‘ -w ‘password‘ -c -f /tmp/enablereplsuffix.ldif
