Hi Gethyn,

>From what I recall, CTDB used underneath is used to share the secret and only 
>the primary named machine is joined, but CTDB and CES should work this backend 
>part out for you.

I do have a question though, do you want to have consistent UIDs across other 
systems? For example if you plan to use NFS to other *nix systems, then you 
probably want to think about LDAP mapping and using custom auth (we do this as 
out AD doesn't contain UIDs either).

Simon

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Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] Integration with Active Directory

Hi all,

I’m new to both GPFS and to this mailing list, so I thought I’d introduce 
myself and one of the issues I am having.

I am a consultant to Rolls-Royce Aerospace currently working on a large 
facilities project, part of my remit is to deliver a data system.  We selected 
GPFS (sorry Spectrum Scale…) for this three clusters, with two of the clusters 
using storage provided by Spectrum Accelerate, and the other by a pair of IBM 
SANs and a tape library back up.

My current issue is to do with integration into Active Directory.  I’ve 
configured my three node test cluster with two protocol nodes and a quorum 
(version 4.2.0.1 on RHEL 7.1) as the master for an automated id mapping system 
(we can’t use RFC2307, as our IT department don’t understand what this is), but 
the problem I’m having is to do with domain joins.  The documentation suggests 
that using the CES cluster hostname to register in the domain will allow all 
nodes in the cluster to share the identity mapping, but only one of my protocol 
nodes will authenticate – I can run “id” on that node with a domain account and 
it provides the correct answer – whereas the other will not and denies any 
knowledge of the domain or user.  From a GPFS point of view, this results in a 
degraded CES, SMB, NFS and AUTH state.  My small amount of AD knowledge says 
that this is expected – a single entry (e.g. the cluster name) can only have 
one SID.

So I guess that my question is, what have I missed?  Is there something in AD 
that I need to configure to make this work?  Does one of the nodes in the 
cluster end up as the master and the other a subordinate?  How do I configure 
that within the confines of mmuserauth?

As I said I am a bit new to this, and am essentially learning on the fly, so 
any pointers that you can provide would be appreciated!

Cheers,

Gethyn Longworth
MEng CEng MIET | Consultant Systems Engineer | AEROSPACE

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