Kyriakos Stefanidis wrote: > Hello all, > > Is it possible to change the attribute values on the consumer (of the > replication scheme) or add new attributes and preserve them during > replication? I'm confused here? The Consumer is a replica in a replication configuration, so they atrributes etc. will be the same as a provider. > Im using external scripts that refresh the values/attributes regulary > but I was wondering if there is another more "elegant" way > > Best Regards > Kyriakos -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

Kyriakos Stefanidis wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Gavin Henry <ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com > <mailto:ghenry@suretecsystems.com>> wrote: > > Kyriakos Stefanidis wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Is it possible to change the attribute values on the consumer (of the > > replication scheme) or add new attributes and preserve them during > > replication? > > I'm confused here? The Consumer is a replica in a replication > configuration, so they atrributes etc. will be the same as a provider. > > > Im using external scripts that refresh the values/attributes regulary > > but I was wondering if there is another more "elegant" way > > > > Best Regards > > Kyriakos > > > -- > Kind Regards, > > Gavin Henry. > Managing Director. > > T +44 (0) 1224 279484 > M +44 (0) 7930 323266 > F +44 (0) 1224 824887 > E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com <mailto:ghenry@suretecsystems.com> > > Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). > > http://www.suretecsystems.com/ > > > Its the case where the provider and the consumer exist under diferent > administrative domains. I have administrative rights on the consumer and > I have replication rights from the provider (part of the provider's tree > via syncrepl). > > In order to make the consumer useful for my services, I need some extra > attributes. Therefore, while the consumer gets regular updates and > additions from the provider, I need to be able to add some extra > attributes on the consumer (for each new entry). > > To make things more complicated, I also need to be able to put some > default values (diferent than the ones that the provider has) to some > existing attributes (for each new or updated entry). > > An external script that changes/refreshes those attributes on the > consumer (for each entry) regulary (eg: right after each replication > update) is one solution. I was wondering if syncrepl or some other > application could make things more elegant and robust slapo-translucent would help here. You would need to setup an additional database on the consumer slapd to contain the translucent data. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/