Hello All,
I've got a bit of a problem.... Management chose a software product that depends on OpenLDAP's SLAPD service and had us put it into production without our quite understanding the software well enough to be clueful. The deployment is across virtual and real servers, the virtual servers handling the web stack and other user-oriented functionality while "real" servers handle data management. Regarding the data management, one system was chosen as a replication master, and another as slave, but being understaffed, we never quite got the replication of the OpenLDAP data configured when, today, some serious networking problems cropped up.
The symptom is that we can establish an OpenLDAP (slapd) connection from the virtual side to the master, and a postgres connection - our RDBMS, but we can't get the rest of our primary application to connect properly so it's down. And it is absolutely not clear what's wrong with the master anyway. I can't get to the physical hardware because it's off in some data center somewhere that the founder located near him - and he's off traveling. So, we're "dead in the water."
I was thinking that we might salvage the situation by dumping the data from the Postgres and OpenLDAP databases and restoring them to the slave system - promoting it to master - and while I've succeeded in moving over the Postgres data, I haven't a CLUE how to get started unloading and reloading the OpenLDAP data.
...I'm very competent with most things related to computing but I am _completely_ inexperienced with OpenLDAP. I've never issued any commands to or with OpenLDAP / slapd and have no idea what's normal for dealing with it. Are there dump and reload utilities? Any and all pointers / help GREATLY appreciated.
Richard