Synchronizing global policies

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You can use the steps provided in the procedure here to synchronize the global policies.

About this task

These steps set up cn=ibmpolicies as a single partition. This is necessary to enable you to synchronize the global policies on all of the servers. Global administrative group members can send request for schema updates through a proxy server to its backend servers. To know more about schema update, see Schema updates in a distributed directory.

Procedure

  1. From the navigation area, click Manage partition bases.
  2. On the Partition bases table, click Add.
  3. Enter a split name in the Split Name field.Note: This value represents the split name provided for a split point that splits a partition base DN into partitions. The ibm-slapdProxySplitName attribute in the ibm-slapdProxyBackendSplitContainer object class is associated with this split name. The value of the ibm-slapdProxySplitName attribute must be unique within a proxy server's configuration file and must only contain alphanumeric values. For example, if a directory is split at DN "o=sample" into two partitions, the split name is associated with the o=sample split and the two partitions. To uniquely identify a split partition you must use the ibm-slapdProxySplitName and ibm-slapdProxyPartitionIndex attributes.
  4. Enter cn=ibmpolicies in the Partition base DN field.
  5. Enter 1 in the Number of partitions field.Note: A value greater than 1 for cn=ibmpolicies is not supported.
  6. To enable auto fail-back, select the Auto fail-back enabled check box.
    1. To enable Auto fail-back queue, select the Auto fail-back queue enabled check box. Theibm-slapdProxyFailbackBasedOnQueueEnabled attribute in the ibm-slapdProxyBackendSplitContainer objectclass is associated with this control. When the Auto fail-back queue enabled check box is selected, fail-back is based on replication queue size. If this check box is not selected, then the auto fail-back queue threshold size value is ignored.
    2. Enter the auto fail-back queue threshold size in the Auto fail-back queue threshold size field. The ibm-slapdProxyFailbackQueueThresholdSize attribute in the ibm-slapdProxyBackendSplitContainer objectclass is associated with this control. The default value of auto fail-back queue threshold size is 5. The auto fail-back queue threshold size denotes the size of the replication queue which determines if the replication state is stable. A value of 0 indicates that the replication queue is considered stable only if there are no pending changes. Negative values are not allowed.
    Note: If a backend server is restarted and if auto fail-back is enabled, the proxy server will automatically start using that backend server.
  7. To enable proxy high consistency, select the Proxy high consistency enabled check box. For more information see High consistency and failover
  8. Click OK.
  9. Select the radio button for cn=ibmpolicies and click View servers.
  10. Verify that cn=ibmpolicies is displayed in the Partition base DN field.
  11. In the Back-end directory servers for partition base table, click Add.
  12. From the Back-end directory server menu, select ServerA.
  13. Enter 1 in the Partition index field.
  14. From the Server role list, select a role for the back-end directory server.Note: The available roles that you can assign for a back-end directory server are primarywrite and any. Primary write server should be set to a master or peer server where write requests should be sent.
  15. From the Proxy tier list, select a priority that you want to assign. For more information, see Weighted prioritization of backend servers.
  16. Click OK.