[Freeipa-users] Can't remove all replica records from ldap

[Kim Perrin]

Thanks for the reply Rob.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Rob Crittenden <rcritten at redhat.com> wrote:
> Kim Perrin wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> For nearly 2 years I’ve been running a Freeipa 3 (currently 3.0.0-42)
>> environment. We've had 2 masters since the start.  Several replicas
>> have had problems that required me to remove them. I’ve removed them
>> all (except the very last one) by running  ‘ipa-server-install
>> --uninstall’  and then  ipa-replica-manage clean-ruv’. The latest
>> replica I tried to remove failed on both commands. On further
>> inspection I see all the previous replicas have orphaned entries in
>> the ldap db.  How do I remove all the entries? (I’ve listed the
>> entries below). Is this process safe (in what is currently a single
>> ipa server environment)? Note, I’ve seen the one of the necessary
>> LDIFs that can be ‘run’ to remove the entries -- I just don’t
>> understand how to run an ldif.
>
> You're skipping the step of ipa-replica-manage del <master-to-remove>?
> That should do most of this cleanup for you.
I did run 'ipa-replica-manage del <master-to-remove>'  for all these as well.


>
> For the CA you use ipa-csreplica-manage. Unfortunately that utility
> lacks the RUV commands.
>
> rob
>
>> Relevant entries -
>>
>> kperrin at noc1-prd:~# ldapsearch -xLLL -D "cn=directory manager" -W -s
>> sub -b cn=config objectclass=nsds5replica
>> Enter LDAP Password:
>> dn: cn=replica,cn=dc\3Dcompanyz\2Cdc\3Dcom,cn=mapping tree,cn=config
>> cn: replica
>> nsDS5Flags: 1
>> objectClass: top
>> objectClass: nsds5replica
>> objectClass: extensibleobject
>> nsDS5ReplicaType: 3
>> nsDS5ReplicaRoot: dc=companyz,dc=com
>> nsds5ReplicaLegacyConsumer: off
>> nsDS5ReplicaId: 4
>> nsDS5ReplicaBindDN: cn=replication manager,cn=config
>> nsDS5ReplicaBindDN:
>> krbprincipalname=ldap/noc2prd.companyz.com at COMPANYZ.COM,cn=services,cn=accounts,dc=companyz,dc=com
>> nsDS5ReplicaBindDN:
>> krbprincipalname=ldap/util1prd.companyz.com at COMPANYZ.COM,cn=services,cn=accounts,dc=companyz,dc=com
>> nsDS5ReplicaBindDN:
>> krbprincipalname=ldap/noc3prd.companyz.com at COMPANYZ.COM,cn=services,cn=accounts,dc=companyz,dc=com
>> nsDS5ReplicaBindDN:
>> krbprincipalname=ldap/noc4prd.companyz.com at COMPANYZ.COM,cn=services,cn=accounts,dc=companyz,dc=com
>> nsState:: BAAAAAAAAABlZwhVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADgAAAAAAAAAFAAAAAAAAAA==
>> nsDS5ReplicaName: 2767660e-9e5611e2-b7b6a070-c35ad5d3
>> nsds5ReplicaAbortCleanRUV: 14:dc=companyz,dc=com
>> nsds5ReplicaChangeCount: 682699
>> nsds5replicareapactive: 0
>>
>> kperrin at noc1-prd:~# ldapsearch -xLLL -D "cn=directory manager" -W -b
>> o=ipaca  '(&(nsuniqueid=ffffffff-ffffffff-ffffffff-ffffffff)(objectclass=nstombstone))'
>> -p 7389 -h noc1-prd
>> Enter LDAP Password:
>> dn: nsuniqueid=ffffffff-ffffffff-ffffffff-ffffffff,o=ipaca
>> objectClass: top
>> objectClass: nsTombstone
>> objectClass: extensibleobject
>> nsds50ruv: {replicageneration} 5317a449000000600000
>> nsds50ruv: {replica 96 ldap://noc1-prd.companyz.com:7389} 5317a455000000
>> 600000 550878b9000000600000
>> nsds50ruv: {replica 71 ldap://noc2-prd.companyz.com:7389} 531ce018000000
>> 470000 531ce069000300470000
>> nsds50ruv: {replica 76 ldap://noc4-prd.companyz.com:7389} 531cdde8000000
>> 4c0000 53f659500004004c0000
>> nsds50ruv: {replica 81 ldap://noc2-prd.companyz.com:7389} 531bf216000000
>> 510000 531bf265000100510000
>> nsds50ruv: {replica 86 ldap://noc3-prd.companyz.com:7389} 531a3222000000
>> 560000 531a3256000400560000
>> nsds50ruv: {replica 91 ldap://noc2-prd.companyz.com:7389} 5317f7cf000000
>> 5b0000 531949920000005b0000
>> nsds50ruv: {replica 97 ldap://util1-prd.companyz.com:7389} 5317a45000000
>> 0610000 5317a48a000100610000
>> o: ipaca
>> nsruvReplicaLastModified: {replica 96 ldap://noc1-prd.companyz.com:7389}
>>  550878ab
>> nsruvReplicaLastModified: {replica 71 ldap://noc2-prd.companyz.com:7389}
>>  00000000
>> nsruvReplicaLastModified: {replica 76 ldap://noc4-prd.companyz.com:7389}
>>  00000000
>> nsruvReplicaLastModified: {replica 81 ldap://noc2-prd.companyz.com:7389}
>>  00000000
>> nsruvReplicaLastModified: {replica 86 ldap://noc3-prd.companyz.com:7389}
>>  00000000
>> nsruvReplicaLastModified: {replica 91 ldap://noc2-prd.companyz.com:7389}
>>  00000000
>> nsruvReplicaLastModified: {replica 97 ldap://util1-prd.companyz.com:7389
>> } 00000000
>>
>> -- and here is an example LDIF to remove the last record listed above -
>>
>> dn: cn=replica,cn=o\3Dipaca,cn=mapping tree,cn=config
>> changetype: modify
>> replace: nsds5task
>> nsds5task: CLEANRUV97
>
> That doesn't look right. It should look like:
>
> dn: cn=clean 97,cn=cleanallruv,cn=tasks,cn=config
> changetype: add
> objectclass: top
> objectclass: extensibleObject
> replica-base-dn: dc=companyz,dc=com
> replica-id: 97
> cn: clean 97
>
> Be careful which RUV you remove. You only want to remove those that are
> no longer active.
Thanks for the additional spec on the LDIF, though I still don't
understand how to run this. Is there somewhere you can point me to
with example commands to run such LDIFs?

-Kim
>
> rob