[Freeipa-users] Difference between Masters and Replicas?

[Choudhury, Suhail]

Hi,

I'd like some clarification on what a "master" and "replica" is please.

This doc suggests you start with 1 master and a replica can be promoted to a master by changing "/var/lib/pki-ca/conf/CS.cfg":
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/FreeIPA_Guide/promoting-replica.html

However IPA is supposed to be multi-master replication, and replication agreements appears to be two ways when checking "ipa-replica-manage list hostname" on a given IPA server.

So when creating a replica using:

ipa-replica-install --setup-ca --setup-dns --forwarder=172.20.220.25 --forwarder=172.20.220.27 /root/replica-info-ipa01.domain.com.gpg

am I creating another "master replica"?

Regards,
Suhail Choudhury.
DevOps | Recommendations Team | BSkyB

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