Thank you Buchan, Henry and Richton. Those messages were helpful.<br>I shall go through all your suggestions and get back to you guys.!!<br><br>Cheers,<br>Imran<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 12, 2008 10:12 PM, Buchan Milne &lt;<a href="mailto:bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net">bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Tuesday 12 February 2008 09:28:12 Ishklight wrote:<br>&gt; Hi,<br>&gt;<br>
&gt; I want to set up openldap servers to be available all the time.<br><br></div>What aspect needs to be available all the time? Reads, or writes?<br><br>If reads need to be available all the time, make sure you have sufficient<br>
slaves (taking into account network topology).<br><br>If you need HA for writes, then you either need to go with multi-master (you<br>may still need some cluster middleware or load-balancer to ensure that<br>clients always get to a live server), or you need to go with an HA cluster<br>
with some kind of shared storage.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>&gt; Also, how would I test my requirement?<br><br></div>Once you have a technical requirement (and not just a wish), it should be easy<br>to write and implement a test case. In short, this is your job, I&#39;m not going<br>
to do it for you (unless you pay me). I doubt others on this list will<br>either.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>&gt; Is it possible to set up highly available openLDAP servers?<br><br></div>Yes, for over two years I have been running an OpenLDAP 2.3 HA cluster, with<br>
(according to our monitoring system) 100% availability.<br><br>(I note that the two slaves in that deployment have availability of 100% and<br>99.99% ...).<br><br>Regards,<br><font color="#888888">Buchan<br></font></blockquote>
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