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Guidelines for synchronizing distributors

Distributors are components of User Management that propagate changes, such as additions, changes, or deletions, from an application to the AE Services User Service database. AE Services provides two distributors, the SDB distributor and the Generic LDAP distributor.

The Synchronize feature is used to trigger a synchronization of user data between the User Service database (LDAP based) and an application user space (for example, the TSAPI SDB) through a Distributor connection. The Synchronize feature on the Distributor List page allows you to trigger an on-demand synchronization.

Following are a few situations that require an on-demand synchronization: