[Fedora-directory-users] Configuration Directory Question

[Richard Megginson]

James Deuchar wrote:
> Thanks for the swift response - size depends on the success of the 
> project - am tempted to go with external config directory assuming I 
> can get it working...
>
> I tried to the procedure I listed below i.e. installed the RPM, ran 
> setup to create a 'dsconfig' instance on port 5555.
>
> Then I created a master.inf file for inputing into the ds_newinst.pl 
> script:
>
> [General]
> FullMachineName=   server1.jamesd.com
> SuiteSpotUserID=   ldap
> ServerRoot=   /opt/fedora-ds
> ConfigDirectoryAdminID=   admin
> ConfigDirectoryAdminPwd=   blah
> ConfigDirectoryLdapURL=   ldap://server1.jamesd.com:5555/o=NetscapeRoot
> AdminDomain=   jamesd.com
>
> [slapd]
> ServerPort=   389
> ServerIdentifier=   master01
> Suffix=   dc=jamesd,dc=com
> RootDN=   cn=Directory Manager
> RootDNPwd=   blah
> UserExistingMC=1
This should be "UseExistingMC" not "User"
>
> When I ran that it seemed to work - instance called master01 was 
> created and is running.
>
> When running the console though, it's not listed - only the 
> Administration Server and 'dsconfig' Directory Server instance.
>
> How can I make the master01 instance appear in the admin console and 
> also verify that master01 is using dsconfig to stores is configuration 
> data?
>
> Thanks again
>
>
> > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:33:37 -0600
> > From: rmeggins at redhat.com
> > To: fedora-directory-users at redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Configuration Directory Question
> >
> > James Deuchar wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've got a what I thought was a relatively simple DS setup with two
> > > master DS servers doing master-master replication. In the future
> > > slaves may be added into the equation.
> > >
> > > Initially I installed both servers the same - as standalone DS' each
> > > with it's own admin server and 'in-house' o=NetscapeRoot 
> configuration
> > > directory.
> > >
> > > Reading some of the Redhat docs on 'Configuration decisions' it talks
> > > about having the configuration directory in a separate directory
> > > instance - based on what I've seen from the DS setup script this
> > > implies supplying those details during the install of the real DS
> > > instances that will contain the data.
> > >
> > > Is my understanding correct? Does this mean I should be installing an
> > > independent configuration directory on both masters and setup
> > > replication between them to provide a redundant configuration
> > > directory alongside the redundant data directories?
> > For small deployments, you can have your config DS and data DS be 
> the same.
> > >
> > > If so is the install procedure reasonable?:
> > >
> > > - install fedora RPM on server 1
> > > - Run setup script to create server 1 config directory
> > > - Run ds_newinst.pl to create data directory on the same server
> > > pointing it to the local config directory during setup
> > > - Repeat on server 2
> > > - Setup replication on data masters and on config directories
> > Sure.
> > >
> > > Many thanks!
> > >
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