>>> Quanah Gibson-Mount <[email protected]> schrieb am 03.12.2016 um 22:28 in Nachricht <4C4BC30AC646B3691A58116E@[192.168.1.19]>: > --On Saturday, December 03, 2016 3:13 PM -0500 Brendan Kearney > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> i have a n-way multi master replicated directory, and i currently have >> mirror mode turned on. i am getting events in my logs about deferring >> operations (too many executing, etc) and want to know if i am causing >> these with mirror mode. the reading i am able to do on the topic seems >> to indicate that mirror mode is only necessary in provider/consumer >> replication, but i wanted to clarify that. is mirror mode necessary for >> n-way multi master replication? am i safe to turn it off, if it not >> needed? > > Mirror-Mode is a concept that has nothing to do with OpenLDAP configuration > in and of itself. The parameter in slapd.conf/cn=config is badly misnamed. > Either your servers are configured for multi-master replication, or they > aren't. > > Mirror mode is simply where you put a load balancer or similar device in > front of your LDAP servers and direct write traffic to only one > multi-master configured node at a time.
Let me add that in SLES11 the YAST admin tool only manages users if you defined a mirror mode, even if the LDAP server is on the same host. So you still need it there. > > See also <http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/?findid=8511>. > > Regards, > Quanah > > > -- > > Quanah Gibson-Mount > Product Architect > Symas Corporation > Packaged, certified, and supported LDAP solutions powered by OpenLDAP: > <http://www.symas.com>
