How to restore a user's calendar agenda

How to restore a user's Calendar agenda
When you delete users from LDAP and then re-add them to a Calendar node, they
will be assigned new nscalxitemid's.
However, if you have not run any of the tools for removing these
"orphan" entries, the old
nscalxitemid's should
still exist in the Calendar database.

To restore a user's agenda from the Calendar database, use the following steps:

<OL>
<LI>Use ldapsearch to
locate the user entries for the user who you are trying to restore.

Depending on what version of Directory Server you have, the
ldapsearch command line
utility will be in one of the following locations:

(Directory Server 3.x): 
ServerRoot/bin/slapd/server

(Directory Server 4.x): 
ServerRoot/shared/bin
To search for the user with the UserID "bbunny," the syntax for
ldapsearch would be as follows:

ldapsearch -D "cn=directory manager" -w password
-b o=netscape.com uid=bbunny | more (All on one line)

It is also possible to dump the output of this command into a file, as in the
following example:

ldapsearch -D "cn=directory manager" -w password
-b o=netscape.com uid=bbunny > bbunny.txt (All on one line)

The LDAP entry for a Calendar user would appear something as follows (Note:
 The Calendar attribute, nscalxitemid
is in bold, and the ID number
is in red):

dn: uid=bbunny,o=netscape.com
objectclass: top
objectclass: person
objectclass: organizationalPerson
objectclass: inetOrgPerson
objectclass: nsLicenseUser
objectclass: mailRecipient
objectclass: nsCalUser
givenname: Bugs
sn: Bunny
cn: Bugs Bunny
uid: bbunny
nslicensedfor: mail
nslicensedfor: calendar
mail: [email protected]
mailhost: st-thomas.netscape.com
multilinedescription: I'm da wabbit!
maildeliveryoption: mailbox
nscalxitemid: 10000:00257
nscalflags: 0
nscallanguageid: 0
nscalsysopcanwritepassword: 0
nscalpasswordrequired: 1
nscaldefaultnotereminder: 0:0
nscaldefaultreminder: 0:10
nscaldefaulttaskreminder: 0:0
nscaldisplayprefs: 4:480:1080:1:30:190:2
nscaloperatingprefs:
0:255:0:0:0:0:0:1440:0:1440:0:0:1440:0:1440:0:0:1440:0:14
40:0:0:1440:0:1440:0:0:1440:0:1440:0:0:1440:0:1440:0:0:1440:0:1440
nscalrefreshprefs: 1:60
nscalnotifmechanism: 1
nscaltimezone: 0

In the line nscalxitemid: 10000:00257
, "10000" is the node number and
"00257" is the
calID number.
The number you will need to change is the
calID number,
"00257".

<LI>From the /unison/bin
directory for Calendar, run
unidsdiff
or ctxdirdiff (whichever
is available) to find the Calendar agenda that is missing an LDAP entry.

The syntax for these utilities will be as follows:

unidsdiff -n 10000
or
ctxdirdiff -n 10000

These utilities should list any entries that don't have a matching directory
entry, usually in the following format:

nscalxItemid="10000:00256" (S="Bunny",G="Bugs")

The ID number in red is the ID that you will
use to replace the ID number in the LDAP entry.

<LI>Use one of the following two options to update the LDAP entry:

Option#1:

<LI>Edit the file from the ldapsearch
output by changing the
nscalxitemid in this
file to the correct ID from the
unidsdiff/ctxdirdiff
output (from step 2 above).
<LI>Delete the user from LDAP.
<LI>Use ldapmodify to
re-add the user from the file you edited.
(ldapmodify is located
in the same directory as ldapsearch

For example,

ldapmodify -D "cn=directory manager" -w password -a -f filename
</UL>
Option#2:

<LI>Edit the file from the ldapsearch
output using update statements that
will update the LDAP entry without having to delete it.

For example, you can edit the output in step 1 above so that the file contains
only the following lines with the correct
nscalxitemid:

dn: uid=bbunny,o=netscape.com
changetype: modify
replace: nscalxitemid
nscaxitemid: 10000:00256

<LI>Use ldapmodify to
update the entry in the file, as follows:

ldapmodify -D "cn=directory manager" -w password -f filename
</UL>
</OL>
After performing the above steps, you can use
ldapsearch to locate
the entry and verify that it was changed. The user should now be
able to log into the Calendar Client and see her previous agenda entries.

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