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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:
Recovery of AE Services after a User Management failure or a maintenance shutdown. For information about shutting down services, see Service Controller (start stop and restart services).
Recovery of AE Services after a client application failure or a maintenance shutdown
After adding a new client application that relies on the User Management capabilities