[Freeipa-devel] ipa-replica-manage and topology plugin

[Ludwig Krispenz]

Hi,
I am working on ticket #4302 and am building a protoptype to verify if 
the current design [1] will work an what is missing.

Now the question comes up, how will this be managed and what happens 
with eg ipa-replica-manage ? If the topology plugin is deployed and 
configured it will control all replication related tasks via 
modifcations of the entries in the shared tree, direct modofications of 
replication agreements will be rejected. This makes several subcommands 
of ipa-replica-manage unusable, like connect/disconnect/... .
So should the functionality of ipa-replica-manage be changed to use the 
shared tree or should there be a new command like ipa-topology-manage.

I would prefere a new command, so ipa-replica-manage is there if the 
topology plugin is disabled, also there shoul be some new subcommands 
like topology-verify, topology-view ...

Let me know what you think,

Thanks,
Ludwig

[1] http://www.freeipa.org/page/V4/Manage_replication_topology