ABSTRACT
Data distribution is closely coupled with the protocol nature of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Indeed, directory services is one piece of the distributed computing environment, which was developed by the Open Systems Foundation that converged in the Open Group. The distributed computing environment has the goal of coordinating resources and applications in large heterogeneous networks. A heterogeneous network is made up of computers on different hardware platforms running different operating systems. Replication puts the same data onto two or more other directory servers. The most frequent repositories find in an enterprise are databases of users and groups defined to access system resources. Partitioning is the action of dividing one large directory into two or more smaller and therefore more easily manageable pieces that combine to form a complete, logical unit. The frequency of replication depends on the degree of consistency required between consumer and supplier.
