Re: Multi Master Enviornment for Openldap 2.3

[Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au>]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:28:34PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
> On Thursday 01 February 2007 09:30, Aviles, Hugo wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > So here's my situation,  I need to setup two openldap instances that
> > will be setup behind a load balancers and be redundant for each other.
> > But i don't want any referrels' to another "master" instance to make the
> > writes.  I want both instances to be able to write and do the update
> > without a referral and also have the same data across both instances.  I
> > am having trouble figuring out how to setup openldap to do that but from
> > what I have read so far, syncrepl seems to be what I should use to get
> > close to what I want.  But I still need some assistance.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > It doesn't haven't to be Multi-master but I do what the two instances to
> > have the same data and be able to update requests to modify/add/delete
> > entries without a refferal..
> 
> Sounds like sync-repl (for replication) and chain overlay (see 'man 
> slap-chain') will do what you want.

But what happens when one of the servers is down, does slapo-chain store the
values ?

> 
> Regards,
> Buchan
> 
> -- 
> Buchan Milne
> ISP Systems Specialist - Monitoring/Authentication Team Leader
> B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)