On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Howard Chu <[email protected]> wrote:
>> to my understanding the admin guide on mirrormode is misleading.
>> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/replication.html#MirrorMode
>> According to this documentation both nodes have to be put into
>> mirror mode, as far as I understand the concept of mirror mode, and is
>> described in slapd.conf(5), there is one node accepting write
>> operations, that is 'mirrormode on' statement, the other node acts as
>> synrepl consumer and a hot standby only, with 'mirrormode off'.
>> Could someone please correct me, if I'm wrong.
>
> The doc is correct. For seamless failover to work automatically, without any
> manual intervention, both nodes must be configured identically.
I wonder out of interest, is it legal to have something like the
following on both nodes (that is with two different rid=xxx syncrepl
statements) ?
This would in theory allow the same config on both servers, assuming
it was acceptable config-wise.
Cheers
Brett
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# Global section
serverID 1 ldap://ldap-sid1.example.com
serverID 2 ldap://ldap-sid2.example.com
# database section
# syncrepl directive
syncrepl rid=001
provider=ldap://ldap-sid2.example.com
bindmethod=simple
binddn="cn=mirrormode,dc=example,dc=com"
credentials=mirrormode
searchbase="dc=example,dc=com"
schemachecking=on
type=refreshAndPersist
retry="60 +"
syncrepl rid=002
provider=ldap://ldap-sid1.example.com
bindmethod=simple
binddn="cn=mirrormode,dc=example,dc=com"
credentials=mirrormode
searchbase="dc=example,dc=com"
schemachecking=on
type=refreshAndPersist
retry="60 +"
mirrormode on
