INTER-DIRECTORY DATABASE REFERENCE COOPERATION INFORMATION CONSISTENCY HOLDING PROGRAM, DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a means allowing each server to autonomously notify another server to repair and maintain consistency when detecting inconsistency caused by a change or the like of each database, in holding of the consistency of referral relation in network environment of the LDAP servers performing referral cooperation. SOLUTION: Each entry of a reference source and a reference destination has a reference entry attribute storage means 12 storing respective pieces of entry information of the reference source and the reference destination into an attribute in a pair. Each the server having the database has: a synchronization storage means 11 storing synchronization information wherein the entry information of the reference source and the reference destination stored in all the reference entry attribute storage means 12 of the database are associated in the pair; a synchronization information transmission means 7 transmitting the synchronization information to the server allowing reference cooperation; and a synchronization information reception means 2 receiving the synchronization information from the server allowing the reference cooperation. Based on the synchronization information delivered between the servers, the consistency of reference cooperation information is held. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI