Monty, Simon, Christof,

 

Many thanks for your help.  I found that the firewall wasn’t configured 
correctly – I made the assumption that the samba “service” enabled the ctdb 
port (4379 the next person searching for this) as well – enabling it manually 
and restarting the node has resolved it.

 

I need to investigate the issue of consistent uids / gids between my linux 
machines.  Obviously very easy when you have full control over the AD, but as 
ours is a local AD (which I can control) and most of the user IDs coming over 
on a trust it is much more tricky.

 

Has anyone done an ldap set up where they are effectively adding extra user 
info (like uids / gids / samba info) to existing AD users without messing with 
the original AD?

 

Thanks,

 

Gethyn

 

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To: gpfsug main discussion list
Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Integration with Active Directory

 

All CES nodes should operate consistently across the cluster. Here are a few 
tips on debugging:

/usr/lpp/mmfs/bin/wbinfo-p to ensure winbind is running properly
/usr/lpp/mmfs/bin/wbinfo-P (capital P), to ensure winbind can communicate with 
AD server
ensure the first nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf points to your AD server (check 
all nodes)
mmuserauth service check --server-reachability  for a more thorough validation 
that all nodes can communicate to the authentication server

If you need to look at samba logs (/var/adm/ras/log.smbd & log.wb-<domainname>) 
to see what's going on, change samba log levels issue: /usr/lpp/mmfs/bin/net 
conf setparm global 'log level' 3.  Don't forget to set back to 0 or 1 when you 
are done!

If you're willing to go with a later release, AD authentication with LDAP ID 
mapping has been added as a feature in the 4.2 release. ( 
<https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY_4.2.0/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v4r2.adm.doc/bl1adm_adwithldap.htm?lang=en>
 
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY_4.2.0/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v4r2.adm.doc/bl1adm_adwithldap.htm?lang=en)


Monty Poppe
Spectrum Scale Test
[email protected]
512-286-8047 T/L 363-8047



From:        "Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services)" 
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Date:        02/25/2016 07:19 AM
Subject:        Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Integration with Active Directory
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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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