ICE import stops after the first 250 entries

  • 3375345
  • 05-Jan-2007
  • 27-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 for All Platforms
ICE
Import Convert Export
Novell eDirectory 8.8 for All Platforms

Situation

When importing several hundred users with the following command line:

ice -S ldif -f sys:myldif.txt -D ldap -s myserver -p389 -d cn=admin,o=myorg -w mypassword

the import stops after the first 250 entries.  It could possbly be more than this amount but it will stop and return to the prompt acting like it did not work.

Resolution

The -c parameter, which prevents the LDIF handler from stopping on errors, needs to be used:

ice -S ldif-c-f sys:myldif.txt -D ldap -s myserver -p389 -d cn=admin,o=myorg -w mypassword

Additional Information

Note that the placement of option parameters is very important as usage can change depending on the handlers being used:

ice [] [] -S -D

For a full list of options, type ice -h options
For example command lines, type ice -h examples
For more detailed help on a handler, type ice -h, where is one of: LDAP, LDIF, DELIM, LOAD, SCH