On 04/09/2012 11:42 AM, Roy Golan wrote: > auto-detection featured few bugs lately which convinced me that it must > be deprecated/removed from > the code in favor of adding manual set of the provider type. > > main reasons for that: > a. the provider is type is known by the user > b. identifying a provider by the rootDSE attributes is error-prone, not > reliable etc... specially if the support matrix is growing > c. auto-detection logic is duplicated (and not shared) between the > backend code and the manage-domains tool (nevermind the reasons now) > > A manual set of the provider type requires a new configuration field for > a domain and the > question is the upgrade path which may look like > > * set the provider type to default Active Directory (because its more > likely to be the provider type) I think we should not have this assumption -for new environments ldap provider type MUST be set via manage domains.
> * things not working - use the engine-manage-domains and choose the > provider type. > * optionally - keep the auto-detection (of the tool only!) if user > wants to use it. > > your suggestion and thoughts... +1 in general about the idea. We have to handle upgrades though (providing ldap provider type data in DB in already-installed environments). > > Thanks, > Roy > > > _______________________________________________ Engine-devel mailing list Engine-devel@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel
