Re: How to add a new schema on N-way multi-master with legacy config

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@symas.com>]

--On Wednesday, October 10, 2018 9:32 AM +0200 Martin Božič 
<martin.bozic@arnes.si> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We've inherited an N-way multi-master setup (based on CentOS OpenLDAP v.
> 2.4.39) which was setup with text conf in slapd.conf instead of online
> configuration in cn=config.
>
> Due to various dependencies from other internal systems we can't migrate
> to online configuration quickly, but we to urgently have to add an
> additional schema to our cluster. My Google-fu and wading through the
> openldap list archives was unsuccessful.
>
> I suppose that adding a new schema to such a setup would require the
> following steps:
>
> 1. stop all instances in the cluster
> 2. add schema to all instances to /etc/openldap/schema
> 3. start all instances in the cluster
>
> Would this be the correct approach or is there something else I
> should be aware of?

You have to modify the slapd.conf file to add an include statement for each 
schema file you want it to load.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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