Re: running DB on different machine than slapd

"Kelly, Terence P" terence.p.kelly@hp.com writes:

For a variety of reasons I would like to run the back-end database beneath slapd on a different machine than slapd.

This appears to be difficult using the Berkeley DB.

Can anyone offer suggestions on how to run slapd and the database --- any database --- on separate machines?

Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.

If the remote database is a ldap server, you may use back_ldap. If the remote database is a RDBM you may use a combination of back_sql, back_relay and probably back_ldap or back_meta. If the remote database is of any other type you may use back_perl. But note that the performance would be rather poor compared to back_bdb or back_hdb.

-Dieter