[Fedora-directory-users] Admin Server connecting to two Directory Servers within the same domain

[Richard Megginson]

Daryle A. Tilroe wrote:
> Richard Megginson wrote:
>
>> Daryle A. Tilroe wrote:
>>
>>> I have a closely related question.  Is there a correct way in a simple
>>> dual multimaster setup to have the two servers both be config servers
>>> for the same DB?  I tried just replicating NetscapeRoot but I ended up
>>> with things messed up.
>>
>> How so?
>
> It was a couple weeks ago but IIRC the admin server on the second
> master would not run properly.  I will really have to try it again
> to confirm.
>
>>> I have not yet tried again but was curious
>>> if there was a 'correct' method.
>>
>> Not really.  There are too many places where the host:port of the 
>> config DS are hard coded, and there is not really a provision for 
>> specifying more than one for failover.
>
> So basically I should have my two multimasters run independent admin
> servers?  I did notice that I can admin the other "independent"
> secondary master with the 'left over' entry in the config DB of
> the primary (it was left there after I redid the secondary since
> the I left the primary).  This suggests I could probably add each
> of the two master to each other's config DB manually.
Yes, you could do that too.
> I'm not really
> sure that this is even useful though in a small install.  Probably
> best to leave them as separate admin servers with the userRoot
> replicated; that seems to work just fine.
>
>
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