Overview[1]#

Obituary

LDAP (eDirectory) Attribute Definition#

The Obituary AttributeTypes is defined as:

• OID of 2.16.840.1.113719.1.1.4.1.114
• NAME: Obituary
• DESC: Used to avoid name collisions during certain operations.
• Supertype:
  • (only if present)
• EQUALITY:
• ORDERING:
• SYNTAX: 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.40 Octet String
• UPPERBOUND: 64512
• NO-USER-MODIFICATION
• USAGE DirectoryOperation
• Extended Flags:
  • X-NDS_NONREMOVABLE: 1
  • X-NDS_FILTERED_REQUIRED: 1
  • X-NDS_READ_FILTERED: 1
• Used as MUST in:
• Used MAY in:
  • Top

In a distributed Data Store, each server receives updated information through synchronization. Because the servers do not receive updates simultaneously, the server might NOT hold the same information at a given time. For this reason, each server holds on to the old information until all the other servers receive updates. NDS uses obituaries to keep track of such information.

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• 2.16.840.1.113719.1.1.4.1.114
• 2.5.6.0
• NDS Obituaries

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• [#1] - https://www.novell.com/documentation/developer//ndslib/schm_enu/data/sdk4662.html - based on information obtained 2017-07-05-