[Freeipa-users] Config applied to SSSd

[Jakub Hrozek]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 10:09:51AM +0000, Adam Bishop wrote:
> ipa-client-install on RHEL6-ish distro's configures SSSd as follows:
> 
>     [domain/MYDOMAIN]
>     
>     ...
>     ipa_server = _srv_, ldap01.my.domain
>     ...
> 
> The man page isn't too clear on what is this value used for (or how ipa-client-install derives it in a multi-server deployment), or what would happen if ldap01 went offline.
> 
> Is anyone able to clarify the how the defaults behave?

Hi,

See the 'failover' section in the sssd-ipa man pages, does it answer
your questions?