I don’t think MirrorMode is available in 2.3. Here is my setup below. What am I missing? I had to download the overlays from the beta channels just to get ppolicy. My goal is to provide a mechanism for authentication users and have a redundancy in case I love the provider. I may be trying to over analyze this configuration but the documents are a little confusing.
1. Configured a single LDAP server 2. Configured syncrepl on the provider 3. Configured a single consumer "refreshonly" 4. I have several applications and client connecting to the provider. Each application and client only point to the provider. . Squid . Samba . Dovecot . End Users authenticating through gdm
Thanks Again
John Allgood Senior Systems Administrator Turbo, division of OHL 2251 Jesse Jewell Pky. NE Gainesville, GA 30507 tel: (678) 989-3051 fax: (770) 531-7878
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-----Original Message----- From: Gavin Henry [mailto:ghenry@suretecsystems.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 12:03 PM To: Allgood, John Cc: openldap-technical@openldap.org Subject: Re: Syncrepl Questions
I am not understanding what happens to my clients if something happens to my provider. In some replication systems when the main server fails you can start using the machine that was replicated to as your primary.
This is called Active-Active Hot Standby and can be done with MirrorMode.
Does the consumer act as a slave machine?
It can be, depends how you've set it up, which you have told us ;-)
On each of my clients do I point them to the provider/consumer.
It depends on what your clients are doing, if it's all readonly, then point them at both. Tell us more.