Inspirational Technology

LDAP Replication

Here's a tip, if you're setting up multi-master replication with iPlanet directory server and have the servers connected by 100mb ethernet or greater don't follow the iPlanet recommendation that says to use an LDIF export to initialize the consumers. The last time I did this, I followed that recommendation and ended up wasting several hours while importing the LDIF into the consumer only to have replication fail because of replica id inconsistencies. Use online initialization. Even over SSL it took something like five minutes to initialize the consumer, compared to about 3 hours using LDIF. The bonus of course being that Replication actually worked after it was done.