Re: Determining the master server

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Pierangelo Masarati wrote:

> > Is there any way than an OpenLDAP client can tell whether a particular
> > server is a master or a slave for a particular suffix, without actually
> > trying to update it and seeing what comes back?
> >    
>
> I think the referral mechanism resulting from performing a write operation
> on a slave is the intended mech.  In 2.3 (actually, in HEAD; scheduled for
> 2.3) you may browse the configuration in back-config ("cn=config") and see
> if a server is a master or a slave;
Only the directory administrator has access to cn=config, so clients in 
general cannot do this.

> or you may ask for a feature like
> registering this info into back-monitor ("cn=monitor").
>
> p.
>
>  


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