I have started to put some though into how I would deploy OpenLDAP for a largish environment and some questions have come to mind.
I am planning on having a single master and about 5-6 or so read-only replicas. Hopefully someone with experience can answer these: 1) Is it a good idea to also run a read-only replica/secondary server on my master server, so I can point clients to it as well? I could then put my master on a different port I guess. I think I have seen people recommend this instead of going directly against your master server. Any opinions? 2) I have seen some people mention having a "hot standby" master server or something, but nothing like that is in any documentation or articles that I can find on the web. I couldnt even find anything in the list archives. Does this mean something different than a replica server? If so how would I implement one? 3) I am going to be forced to use the OpenLDAP that is included with Redhat Enterprise 4, which is 2.2.13. Should I try to use Syncrepl or should I stick with slurpd? Thanks for any advice, I am nervous about putting in this deployment. It's basically going to replace 15 years of various NIS environments and replicated local /etc/passwd files that have grown over the years for hundreds of systems in several locations. Thanks!! --- Don Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED]
