DIRECTORY SERVICES
The schema daemon ensures that each LDAP service running in the domain uses a schema that is up-to-date and consistent across servers. The schema daemon runs when the LDAP service first starts, and then after that at 15-minute intervals by default.
The LDAP service runs by default on the administration server for the Domino Directory. The schema daemon spawned by the LDAP service on the administration server does the following to maintain the schema for the domain:
1. Creates the Domino LDAP Schema database (SCHEMA.NSF) from the SCHEMA.NTF template (the first time the schema daemon runs in this release, and subsequently if the Schema database is ever deleted).
2. Builds the schema for the domain into memory by loading information from the following files:
4. Replicates its local Schema database with replicas on subordinate servers that run the LDAP service if the contents of the two replicas are different. This replication occurs without the use of Connection documents immediately after step 3 is complete. If a subordinate server does not yet have a local replica of the Schema database, the schema daemon on the administration server creates one on the subordinate server.
The schema daemon on each subordinate server in the domain that run the LDAP service does the following:
5. Replicates information from the replica of the Schema database on the administration server for the Domino Directory to its local Schema database if the two replicas are different.
Tip Use the server command Tell LDAP ReloadSchema to manually initiate the steps described above.
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