Re: Fail over

[vadim tarassov <vadim.tarassov@swissonline.ch>]

Hallo Ryan,

major problem is that existance of some notes on multimastering in the 
mailing list is far from stage where one can bring such feature in IT 
department, where lots of other things become importnat, such as for 
example migration from 2.0.X to 2.1.X where probably a number of bugs 
has been fixed etc. Now you say that in 2.0.whatsoever one could 
implement multimaster replication, it is fine from academical point of 
view, but nobody is able to say if it is possible in 2.1.X without 
spending month for it., and that's not good.

Regards, Vadim Tarassov.

Ryan Moats wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 09:37:05AM -0600, Banzaitron wrote:
> | Can someone in the know comment about multi-master replication?  It
> | definitely would be nice to have two LDAPs keeping each other in synch
> | (rather than one readonly emergency backup).  Is it available in 2.1.X?
> | What steps are involved in implementing it if it is available?
> | 
> | Thanks,
> | Andy
>
> Multimaster involves experimental code that needs some extra work to
> enable (i.e. you have to do things *before* configure --enable-multimaster
> will work).  Its in 2.0.25, and my memory is that the mailing list archives
> (I think development) have notes on how to do it.
>
> I should note that before you do that, look *very* carefully at the
> code that is enabled by multimaster (SLAPD_MULTIMASTER tags), because
> there are some rather interesting side effects on how multimaster is
> currently implemented.
>
> Ryan Moats
>
> | ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "Tarassov Vadim" <Vadim.Tarassov@winterthur.ch>
> | To: "'Bjørn Ove Grøtan'" <bjorn.grotan@itea.ntnu.no>; "Kristyan Osborne"
> | <kris@longhill.brighton-hove.sch.uk>
> | Cc: "OpenLDAP (E-mail)" <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
> | Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 6:52 AM
> | Subject: AW: Fail over
> | 
> | 
> | Hi Bjorn,
> | 
> | I am not sure that Kristyan is asking about slurpd. Slurpd will update
> | replica, it is not substitution for any sort of clustering or so. If master
> | is not available, you will not be able update replica anyway, which means
> | that you've zero of failover in applications doing lots of updates. The
> | better way to achive his goal would be real multi-master replication, but I
> | am not sure that it works with recent versions of openldap (2.1.*). There
> | were lots of letters around recently about multimaster replication, but up
> | to my best knowledge they were related to 2.0.* versions of openldap. People
> | were suggesting to use --enable-multimaser or #define SLAPD_MULTIMASTER 1 in
> | portable.h. I don't think in 2.1.2 either of them has an effect, in 2.1..4
> | #define SLAPD_MULTIMASTER is commented, so perhaps, it would make sense to
> | try that multimaster activity with 2.1.4? Well, anyway that's all details. I
> | am reading this maillist during last three month and I have not noticed that
> | multimaster re!
> |  plication is sort of "officially" available feature in openldap, well at
> | least people do not really like to talk about it. In such case it probably
> | would make more sense to dig in direction of conventional clustering.
> | 
> | Regards, Vadim Tarassov.
> | 
> | -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> | Von: Bjørn Ove Grøtan [mailto:bjorn.grotan@itea.ntnu.no]
> | Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. September 2002 14:14
> | An: Kristyan Osborne
> | Cc: OpenLDAP (E-mail)
> | Betreff: Re: Fail over
> | 
> | 
> | Kristyan Osborne:
> | > Hi,
> | >
> | > I'm quite new to openldap so you will have to excuse any stupid questions
> | from me.
> | >
> | > I want to make my ldap server redundant so that if it fails another one
> | could take over with no or very little down time.
> | >
> | > Could someone explain to me how to do this or point me to some
> | documentation.
> | >
> | 
> | Browse the list archives for "multi-master" and you can catch the
> | documentation
> | on Slurpd.
> | 
> | Regards
> | 
> | Bjørn Ove Grøtan
> | 
> | 
> | 
> | 
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