Jeffery Harrell wrote:
Good morning. (Its morning where I am.)
Ive written several plugins for my deployment, including a DHCP plugin,
and Im trying to figure out the best way to deploy them onto production
servers.
Lets start with the schema. I could copy a schema file (e.g.,
89dhcp.ldif and others) into /etc/dirsrv/slapd-REALM/schema and do a
schema reload, or I could use ldapmodify to write the schema directly
into the running system so it gets written into
/etc/dirsrv/slapd-REALM/schema/99user.ldif.
Is there any reason to prefer one over the other? Doing it the first way
seems more tidy to me, but it has to be done on each server separately,
which makes me wonder if it might cause things to get weird with respect
to replication during that short span of time when one server has the
schema and the other doesnt. The Red Hat Directory Server documentation
stops short of saying that local schemata should always be installed
with ldapmodify into 99user.ldif, but it seems to kind of head-fake in
that direction, so Im not sure what the right method is.
The answer is neither: you want to use ipa-ldap-updater
--schema-file=<your_schema.ldif>
You definitely want to do it online so the schema gets replicated (and
into 99user.ldif) so entries on non-updated masters don't blow up.
Then there are the update files. For the DHCP plugin, for instance, I
have a short update file that initializes a few objects (see below). Is
it better to just RUN this update against a live server with
ipa-ldap-updater, or is it better to INSTALL this file
in /usr/share/ipa/updates so it stays on the server permanently? Will
the second approach be better in case of upgrades or whatever?
I'd install it into /usr/share/ipa/updates. The updater is more or less
idempotent so it shouldn't hurt anything to run it multiple times.
Once you have things working you might consider submitting your work
upstream. There is a long-standing ticket for DHCP integration,
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/939
rob
Thanks very much for taking the time. I hope my questions made sense.
Jeffery
DHCP update file for reference, if necessary:
dn: cn=dhcp,$SUFFIX
add: objectClass: top
add: objectClass: dhcpService
add: dhcpStatements: authoritative
add: dhcpStatements: default-lease-time 43200
add: dhcpStatements: max-lease-time 86400
add: dhcpStatements: one-lease-per-client on
dn: cn=dhcpHosts,cn=Schema Compatibility,cn=plugins,cn=config
add: objectClass: top
add: objectClass: extensibleObject
add: schema-compat-container-group: cn=hosts,cn=dhcp,$SUFFIX
add: schema-compat-search-base: cn=computers,cn=accounts,$SUFFIX
add: schema-compat-search-filter:
(&(macAddress=*)(fqdn=*)(objectClass=ipaHost))
add: schema-compat-entry-rdn: cn=%{fqdn}
add: schema-compat-entry-attribute: objectClass=dhcpHost
add: schema-compat-entry-attribute: dhcpHWAddress=ethernet %{macAddress}
add: schema-compat-entry-attribute: dhcpStatements=fixed-address %{fqdn}
add: schema-compat-entry-attribute: dhcpOption=host-name "%{fqdn}"
dn: cn=DHCP Administrators,cn=privileges,cn=pbac,$SUFFIX
add: objectClass: top
add: objectClass: groupofnames
add: objectClass: nestedgroup
only: description: DHCP Administrators
plugin: update_managed_permissions
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