This chapter establishes a base of information necessary to begin looking at eDirectory tree design and troubleshooting. Starting with a look at how NDS and eDirectory version numbering work, followed by a study of classes, attributes, and syntaxes, this chapter examines how the database is structured and then moves into a discussion of the partitioning and replication features of eDirectory. This chapter also looks at why time synchronization is important to the eDirectory database. This chapter also includes a discussion about how network services are located using SAP and SLP, the functions and role of DHost in non-Netware platforms. The chapter ends with a review of LDAP support and LDAP features that are included with eDirectory.
Chapter 3, "The Directory Information Base," examines the data store used by eDirectory ”the DIB.
