Re: how to configure multi-master

[Gavin Henry <ghenry@OpenLDAP.org>]

Kevin Elliott wrote:
> Buchan,
>
> Thank you very much for taking the time to iterate over some scenarios 
> and include your suggestions. I resonate with most of what you have 
> suggested, and I had a follow-up question to see if you recommend 
> something different for our particular scenario.
>
> We have a small ldap database, but have had several LDAP outages (mostly 
> due to bdb corruptions that we've yet to diagnose why they're occurring, 
> other than possibly because all the versions are several years old). 
> This ends up taking out all of our unix, OSX, and Windows systems (we're 
> running samba on ldap). Our slave ldap seems to be in a good state 
> during these outages, but most of our systems do not have the ability 
> for one reason or another, to communicate with the slave --- even if we 
> were to point all the systems to it, we would not be able to write to it 
> while the master ldap is down, which is a deal breaker for us! Changes 
> need to occur, and we need to feel confident that the diffs will make it 
> back into the master when it is revived.
>
> What is your suggestion for our specific scenario?

What version of OpenLDAP are you running at the moment? the bdb 
corruptions are very concerning.

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Kind Regards,

Gavin Henry.
OpenLDAP Engineering Team.

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