Running the Dircat task

Schedule the Dircat task on a Dircat server to run at regular intervals by doing the following:

To run the Dircat task manually on a Dircat server, issue this server command:

load dircat dc.nsf

where dc.nsf is the file name of a local directory catalog on the server.

You can do a full rebuild of a directory catalog. Keep in mind that a full rebuild removes and recreates all the aggregated documents so that the first replication after the rebuild will require a full replication of the database.

To do a full rebuild of a directory catalog, you can run the dircat task against the directory catalog using the -r switch, for example:

load dircat dc.nsf -r

Or you can do a full rebuild by clicking the Clear History button on the advanced tab of the directory catalog configuration document.

Before you shut down a server that is in the middle of Dircat processing, pause the Dircat task. When you pause the Dircat task, the Dircat task finishes aggregating the directory catalog it is currently running on and then goes idle. if you don't pause the Dircat task before server shutdown, the Dircat task must reaggregate the directory catalog it was processing at the time of server shutdown from the beginning.

To pause the Dircat task, enter this server command:

Tell Dircat Pause

You can then shut down the server. Or, to resume Dircat processing, enter this server command:

Tell Dircat Resume