Re: State of the relay backend and rwm overlay, is it safe?

[Jeffrey Crawford <jeffreyc@ucsc.edu>]

Hello anyone ;)

I came across this where the state of the rwm overlay was being 
discussed. There seemed to be some indication that the state of both 
slapd-relay and slapo-rwm "should" no longer be listed as experimental:

http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Documentation?id=4844

yet here we are 4 years later and both man pages still have the 
experimental flag. In the above ticket there was some concern that the 
configs were not yet available in cn=config and that is what was holding 
things up.

As far as I can tell they seem to work fine in cn=config and one of they 
replies to the ticket mentioned that work was done in that regard, but I 
have to wonder why the expermential flag is still present. Is there 
still some concern? perhaps related to the following?:

http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Incoming?id=6457

We are trying to roll out a new LDAP service and replacing our Sun 
Directory Server software suite. I do intend to perform testing against 
this arch, but I'm also not 100% sure what kinds of test I should be 
performing to ensure the rwm and relay are working correctly.

Thanks again for any insight
Jeffrey Crawford

On 10/3/11 5:30 PM, Jeffrey Crawford wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm sorry if this is answered somewhere already but I haven't found it.
>
> In short we need to re-map some attributes for specific replication
> schenerios where the replica actually records the data that we've mapped
> on the master server.
>
> Everything works as needed however I did notice that both relay and rwm
> have been tagged as experimental. This would be used in a production
> environment so I'm trying to get a sense if I can offer to use these
> features in our architechture. Or if these backends/overlays are not
> considered safe to use.
>
> I'm using openldap 2.4.26
>
> Thanks
> Jeffrey