The example assumes the following conditions:

  • None of the servers have participated in any previous replication topology. This is supported for one or multiple entry balancing domains.
  • This example uses the LDAP (389) and replication (8989) ports. It configures the following hosts:
    • austin1.example.com
    • newyork1.example.com
    • austin2.example.com
    • newyork2.example.com
  • The global domain is dc=example,dc=com, which is replicated across all servers.
  • The data below the entry-balancing point of ou=people,dc=example,dc=com is distributed across two data sets, dataSet1 and dataSet2.
  • Each data set is replicated between two directory servers. Each of these servers is associated with one of two locations, Austin or New York.