You can use the ipa-replica-manage command to manage certain aspects of replication between IPA servers. This includes listing, adding, and deleting replication agreements, and also performing manual replication initialization and updates.

Initialization is typically only required when you first set up replication, or if a problem arises that causes replication to fail. Initialization erases all data on the target replica and re-copies all data from the master. That is, it completely destroys the database on the consumer and rebuilds it with data from the master.

Sending updates is the regular incremental replication protocol. Typically, this is not needed because the server sends changes when required, provided that the replication agreement schedule allows it.

Refer to the ipa-replica-manage man page for a full description of the available options.

Refer to the Managing Replication section of the Red Hat Directory Server Administration Guide for information about managing replication.