Howto:MultiMasterReplication

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Configuring Multimaster Replication

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Purpose

This document explains how to configure multimaster replication between Fedora and Redhat Directory Servers from the command line.

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Requirements

  • Two machines, each running Fedora Directory Server
  • Password for "cn=directory manager" must be the same on both machines
  • LDAP naming context must be the same on both machines
  • The perl module Net::LDAP
  • The old-mmr.pl script
    • The new packages following the FHS_Packaging (including the fedora-ds-base in Extras) don't define nsslapd-instancedir, so the newer mmr.pl script is required
  • Modified mmr.pl script that allows to utilize a port other than the default with the option "--port" (Both machines must utilize the same port).
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Tail the error logfiles

Open a terminal on host 1 and tail the errors logfile: 

$ tail -f /opt/fedora-ds/slapd-`hostname`/logs/errors

Open a terminal on host 2 and tail the errors logfile: 

$ tail -f /opt/fedora-ds/slapd-`hostname`/logs/errors
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Become familiar with mmr.pl

Check the documentation for the mmr.pl script: 

$ ./mmr.pl --man
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Configure and activate multimaster replication

Execute the mmr.pl script to configure and activate multimaster replication: 

$ ./mmr.pl --host1 a.bigcorp.com --host2 b.bigcorp.com --host1_id 1 --host2_id 2 --bindpw secret --repmanpw secret --create
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Watch the error logfiles for progress

The output in the host 1 error log should look similar to this: 

[20/Nov/2005:00:20:05 +0200] NSMMReplicationPlugin - Beginning total update of replica "agmt="cn="Replication to b.bigcorp.com"" (b:389)".
[20/Nov/2005:00:20:07 +0200] NSMMReplicationPlugin - Finished total update of replica "agmt="cn="Replication to b.bigcorp.com"" (b:389)". Sent 9 entries.

The output in the host 2 error log should look similar to this: 

[20/Nov/2005:00:20:35 +0200] NSMMReplicationPlugin - agmt="cn="Replication to a.bigcorp.com"" (a:389): Replica has a different generation ID than the local data.
[20/Nov/2005:00:20:36 +0200] NSMMReplicationPlugin - multimaster_be_state_change: replica dc=bigcorp,dc=com is going offline; disabling replication
[20/Nov/2005:00:20:36 +0200] - WARNING: Import is running with nsslapd-db-private-import-mem on; No other process is allowed to access the database
[20/Nov/2005:00:20:38 +0200] - import userRoot: Workers finished; cleaning up...
[20/Nov/2005:00:20:39 +0200] - import userRoot: Workers cleaned up.
[20/Nov/2005:00:20:39 +0200] - import userRoot: Indexing complete.  Post-processing...
[20/Nov/2005:00:20:39 +0200] - import userRoot: Flushing caches...
[20/Nov/2005:00:20:39 +0200] - import userRoot: Closing files...
[20/Nov/2005:00:20:39 +0200] - import userRoot: Import complete.  Processed 9 entries in 3 seconds. (3.00 entries/sec)
[20/Nov/2005:00:20:39 +0200] NSMMReplicationPlugin - multimaster_be_state_change: replica dc=bigcorp,dc=com is coming online; enabling replication

At this point, the two machines are replicating. If a change is made to machine 1, it will replicate to machine 2. If a change is made to machine 2, it will replicate to machine 1.

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Display replication agreements

Execute the mmr.pl script to display replication agreements: 

$ ./mmr.pl --host1 a.bigcorp.com --host2 b.bigcorp.com --bindpw secret --display
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Remove replication agreements

Execute the mmr.pl script to configure and remove replication agreements: 

$ ./mmr.pl --host1 a.bigcorp.com --host2 b.bigcorp.com --bindpw secret --remove
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