[Freeipa-users] really dumb question - is an IPA replica automatically a client as well?

[Chris Dagdigian]

Working on a messy multi-AD / multi-child-domain environment ...

Just deployed my 1st replica server after the v4.4 upgrade

The IPA replica seems fine and "ipactl status" reports no issues. The 
webUI clearly shows all of the values/config that came over from the master

However the replica server does not resolve or enumerate any users in 
any of the trusted AD domains despite sssd.conf and krb5.com being 
similar to the IPA master. No obvious errors or blocked traffic although 
I have not yet enabled debug=10 logging yet.

Before I begin the standard krb5 and sssd troubleshooting I wanted to 
ask the dumb question  first -- does an IPA replica automatically get 
enrolled as a managed client? Should I expect it to recognize the remote 
AD user IDs by default?

Chris