On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Devin Reade <gdr at gno.org> wrote: > sync <jiannma at gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have many LDAP Servers which are 389 LDAP Server on different network > . > > So I want to merge them to the one server. > > > > Could someone can give some suggestions? > > Really broad strokes: > > This can work if: > - All the servers you're trying to merge are using consistent schema. > If they're not, it's a lost cause. > - The existing servers are serving different parts of > the DIT hierarchy, and that there is no overlap. > First, thanks for your reply . Sorry to tell you , the existing servers are servers differernt parts of the DIT hierarchy, but there has some account on the differernt ldap servers, but passwd is not the same . There is the first problem > First of all, I wouldn't go down to a single server. As a minimum have > one slave, or doing maintenance on your LDAP server will bring down > many network services unnecessarily (as would an unplanned outage). > If you have satellite offices, at least one replica per site (preferably > two) is good. > Yeah, you are right. I will merge the all LDAP server data to the new LDAP server and then setup the slave server , which can sync the master ldap data > The easiest way to do it is to prepare your new master, then dump the > ldif from each of your old masters, then load those into the new master. > Make sure you have schema checking turned on. Then configure your > new replicas to use the new master. Then cut over your clients. > Add in suitable testing at all stages. > > If you have different administrative requirements for the different part > of the DIT, configure your ACLs before you import the ldif into the > new master. > > Detailed explanations available at my standard consulting rates ;) > (Just joking, I don't have the spare cycles right now.) > > Devin > -- > I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it. > - Stephen Wright > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110422/dcb932ff/attachment-0003.html>