Creating cn=Replication Manager in Directory Server 5.2
In the Sun Directory Server, the Replication Manager has a special purpose; it is the ID which is used to push updates to replication consumer directory server instances. By this, it means it can update ANY entry in the replication consumer’s directory that is allowed to be replicated to. This ID must exist outside of any replication scope (ie: in the cn=config tree); there can be multiple replication managers if such a need arises (ie: one per replicated backend).
An example LDIF for creating a replication manager:
dn: cn=Replication Manager, cn=replication, cn=config
changetype: add
objectClass: top
objectClass: person
cn: Replication Manager
sn: Replication Manager
userPassword: password
Create a file with the above contents and save it to disk (I saved mine as /tmp/createrepman.ldif).
Update your directory server instance via ldapmodify to create the changelog database.
/usr/bin/ldapmodify -h host -p port -D ‘rootdn‘ -w ‘password‘ -c -f /tmp/createrepman.ldif
Official Sun documentation on the replication manager.
