Not just a Directory but a complete Directory Service Sun Directory Services

Original location: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/dsee6_multimaster.jsp

Michael Melore, June 2008

Introduction

One of the significant features of Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6 is that it allows unlimited master directory servers. This document describes the benefits of deploying an exclusively multimaster topology instead of a master, consumer, and replication hub topology.

For more details, see the list of contents below.

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DSCC is the Directory Services Control Center (web console) that is used for configuring and managing the Directory and Directory Proxy servers in your deployment.  We have seen a number of questions from customers around how they can deploy multiple DSCC instances and create a HA environment across all of these DSCC instances.  The simple answer is that yes this can be done and it is supported in the product today.   See the documentation links below for more details on how this can be achieved.

Configuring Failover for DSCC

These additional documentation links can provide more background information into how the new DSCC web console works and uses a directory instance to store its information.  

DSEE Administration Framework

Architectural Changes in Directory Server

There are also some additional configuration changes you can make to the DSCC installation which are documented at the following location: Configuring DSCC