Hello,
I have a few questions about OpenLDAP versions compatibility:
- How to know what version of OpenLDAP client is compatible with what version of the server? - Is there backward or forward compatibility tables from the client and/or server point of view? - For a given version of the server, how to know which clients are compatible, and conversely? - And most important: what about replication?
Thank you! Fabien C.
--On Saturday, February 01, 2014 12:22 AM +0100 "Fabien C." t74jgwb88tli9ch@jetable.org wrote:
Hello,
I have a few questions about OpenLDAP versions compatibility:
- How to know what version of OpenLDAP client is compatible with what
version of the server? - Is there backward or forward compatibility tables from the client and/or server point of view? - For a given version of the server, how to know which clients are compatible, and conversely? - And most important: what about replication?
LDAP is a protocol. As long as they are speaking the same version of the protocal (generally LDAP v3, there is no compatibility issues).
As for replication, you should use the same version of OpenLDAP between all nodes (provider(s) and consumer(s)). Preferably a current release.
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount Architect - Server Zimbra, Inc. -------------------- Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration
On 01/02/2014 00:44, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
As for replication, you should use the same version of OpenLDAP between all nodes (provider(s) and consumer(s)). Preferably a current release.
Sure, but this makes migration to a new OpenLDAP version complicated in a production environment as you cannot necessarily migrate every slave and the master server software at the same time.
Is there a protocol version number mentioned in the code that I could use to know about compatibility?
I know some different versions work well in a master-slave replication configuration because I had such a setup.
Thanks.
--On Saturday, February 01, 2014 12:51 AM +0100 "Fabien C." t74jgwb88tli9ch@jetable.org wrote:
On 01/02/2014 00:44, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
As for replication, you should use the same version of OpenLDAP between all nodes (provider(s) and consumer(s)). Preferably a current release.
Sure, but this makes migration to a new OpenLDAP version complicated in a production environment as you cannot necessarily migrate every slave and the master server software at the same time.
Is there a protocol version number mentioned in the code that I could use to know about compatibility?
I know some different versions work well in a master-slave replication configuration because I had such a setup.
Sure, the end goal should be to get all servers running the same version. I upgrade between 2.4 versions all the time, so there are intervals of time where the provider and replicas are on different releases. Also OpenLDAP 2.4 consumers can run temporarily with an OpenLDAP 2.3 provider.
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount Architect - Server Zimbra, Inc. -------------------- Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration
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