Re: new admin guide draft

[Jonghyuk Choi <jongchoi@us.ibm.com>]

>> What I have in mind is the combinations of three options in slapdadd.
>>
>> slapadd -p : promote  : if syncrepl%d entries are found
>> (consumer->provider)
>>                                          find maximum cookie value out of
>> the syncreplCookie stored in them,
>>                                          and create an ldapsync entry
>> containing the maximum cookie value.
>>                                          do not add the syncrepl%d
>> entries in the provider replica.
>>                                      else if ldapsync entry is found
>> (provider->provider)
>>                                           add it to the provider replica
>> as is.
>>
>> slapadd -r : demote : if ldapsync entry is found (provider->consumer)
>>                                        create syncrepl%d entries having
>> the contextCSN stored in the ldapsync entry.
>>                                   else if syncrepl%d entries are found
>> (consumer->consumer)
>>                                        add them to the consumer replica
>> as is.
>>
>> -w : if -w option is used in addition to -p / -r,
>>                  slapadd will recalculate the contextCSN and
>> syncreplCookie in the
>>                  ldapsync and syncrepl%d entries respectively,
>>                  based on the entryCSN of the entries.
>>
>> (hard to find appropriate letters left available in the slaptool
>> options...)
>
>Hm, does this rely on master/replica's being up when the slapadd command is 
>run?  What if I'm loading all the systems simultaneously, so nothing is 
>running?  From what you've said about the datastore, much of what I was 
>thinking on this matter doesn't actually matter, because it can't be 
>tracking as much information as I'd need it to, but I'll throw the question 
>out for discussion. ;)

In the slapadd description above assumes that master/replica being down
when slapadd is run. The syncrepl and ldapsync entries are searched for
in the input ldif file not from the running directory.

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Jong Hyuk Choi
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