Restart synchronization at a specific change log event - PingDirectory

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Page updated: 20 Jan 2023

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9.2 Product PingDirectory Directory Capability Product documentation Content Type Administration User task IT Administrator Administrator Audience System Administrator Software Deployment Method

Perform the following steps to restart synchronization at a specific event:

Search for a specific change log event from which to restart the synchronization state. On one of the endpoint servers, run ldapsearch to search the change log.

$ bin/ldapsearch -p 1389
--bindDN "uid=admin,dc=example,dc=com" \
--bindPassword secret \
--baseDN cn=changelog \
--dontWrap

"(objectclass=*)"
dn: cn=changelog
objectClass: top
objectClass: untypedObject
cn: changelog
dn: changeNumber=1,cn=changelog
objectClass: changeLogEntry
objectClass: top
targetDN: uid=user.13,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
changeType: modify
changes::
cmVwbGFjZTogcm9vbU51bWJlcgpyb29tTnVtYmVyOiAwMTM4Ci0KcmVwbGFjZTogbW9kaW
ZpZXJzTmFtZQptb2RpZmllcnNOYW1lOiBjbj1EaXJlY3RvcnkgTWFuYWdlcixjbj1Sb290
IEROcyxjbj1jb25maWcKLQpyZXBsYWNlOiBkcy11cGRhdGUtdGltZQpkcy11cGRhdGUtdG
ltZTo6IEFBQUJKZ25OWlUwPQotCgA=
changenumber: 1
          ... (more output)
dn: changeNumber=2329,cn=changelog
objectClass: changeLogEntry
objectClass: top
targetDN: uid=user.49,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
changeType: modify
changes::
cmVwbGFjZTogcm9vbU51bWJlcgpyb29tTnVtYmVyOiAwNDMzCi0KcmVwbGFjZTogbW9kaW
ZpZXJzTmFtZQptb2RpZmllcnNOYW1lOiBjbj1EaXJlY3RvcnkgTWFuYWdlcixjbj1Sb290
IEROcyxjbj1jb25maWcKLQpyZXBsYWNlOiBkcy11cGRhdGUtdGltZQpkcy11cGRhdGUtdG
ltZTo6IEFBQUJKZ25OMC84PQotCgA=
changenumber: 2329

Restart synchronization from change number 2329 using the realtime-sync tool. Any event before this change number will not be synchronized to the target endpoint.
```
$ bin/realtime-sync set-startpoint \
  --change-number 2329 \
  --pipe-name "Sync Pipe 1" \
  --bindPassword secret \
  --no-prompt
```