Agent Process - Obituary

The Obituary process is responsible for advancing obituaries, which certain partitions own, to the next state, if possible.

Obituaries are used to avoid name collisions during certain operations. Obituaries provide a unique identification, other than the object name, that may be required in order to resolve certain functions. In a distributed database, 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. eDirectory uses obituaries to keep track of such information.

For more information on configuring and enabling or disabling this option, see the ndsimonhealth.ini configuration file, located in the same directory as the iMonitor executable (which is usually in the same location as the NetIQ® eDirectory executable).

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