Cisco Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Directory Services Maintenance Manual
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Chapter
3
MeetingPlace
Directory
Services
Concepts
MeetingPlace
Directory
Services
System
Manager’s
Guide Latitude
Communications
Standard
Synchronization
and
Correlation
A
MetaLink agreement is powered by the synchronization
process.
The synchronization process is responsible for
exchanging
data between MeetingPlace and your corporate
directory
system.
It
is comprised of standard synchronization and correlation,
which
use standard attribute mapping and BootStrap attribute
mapping
to offer seamless integration of your directory
information.
Once information changes on your corporate
directory
server, updates propagate to MeetingPlace Directory
Services
via the MetaLink agreement.
Initially,
you can expect the entries to propagate the
MeetingPlace
Directory Services server at a rate of about one
profile
per second.
Each
time the MeetingPlace Directory Services server imports
data,
it goes through a process to determine whether the entry has
been
imported before.
If
this is the first time an entry is being imported into
MeetingPlace
from your corporate directory server, it uses
correlation
to either create, update or delete a MeetingPlace
profile.
If the entry has been imported into MeetingPlace before,
it
uses standard synchronization to update or delete the
MeetingPlace
profile.
Both
correlation and standard synchronization are performed by
matching
the value of one or more attributes on one server with a
corresponding
attribute on another server. This attribute mapping
is
an essential component of correlation and standard
synchronization.