Failure in 2.4.32: similar experiences?

2014-03-26 Thread Nick Urbanik
database monitor rootdn cn=manager,ou=tree12,ou=name rootpw root-password access to dn.subtree=ou=tree12,ou=name by peername.ip=127.0.0.1 read by * none -- Nick Urbanik http://nicku.org 808-71011 nick.urba...@optusnet.com.au GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B

Slaving from Mirror Mode

2012-09-05 Thread Nick Urbanik
decides which master is getting the writes at present? Although our slaves are busy, surviving network issues with data consistent and correct is very important. Network outages and strange disconnects are the rule without automated configuration management for network devices. -- Nick Urbanik http

Re: Slaving from Mirror Mode

2012-09-05 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Quanah, On 05/09/12 10:06 -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Wednesday, September 05, 2012 7:00 PM +1000 Nick Urbanik nick.urba...@optusnet.com.au wrote: I am setting up mirror mode masters both in the same data centre, with one slave offsite. Should all the slaves slave from both

Re: Slaving from Mirror Mode

2012-09-05 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Quanah, On 05/09/12 13:52 -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Thursday, September 06, 2012 6:46 AM +1000 Nick Urbanik ni...@nicku.org wrote: So while I cannot use delta-syncrepl *between* the two mirror-mode masters, I *can* use delta-syncrepl on our eight consumers slaving *from

Re: slapadd *very* slow: tuning advice?

2012-09-04 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Quanah, Thank you for your generous help. On 21/08/12 07:32 -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 4:03 PM +1000 Nick Urbanik nick.urba...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Dear Folks, I'm upgrading a cluster of OpenLDAP servers from 2.3.43-25.el5 to 2.4.32 with BDB

Re: slapadd *very* slow: tuning advice?

2012-09-04 Thread Nick Urbanik
On 21/08/12 14:27 -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 7:15 AM +1000 Nick Urbanik ni...@nicku.org wrote: I would strongly advise examining using a shared memory key for that DB as well. Okay: I could create that with a command like ipcmk -M 16777216

Re: slapadd *very* slow: tuning advice?

2012-09-04 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Quanah, Thank you again. You are most generous! On 21/08/12 14:40 -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 7:37 AM +1000 Nick Urbanik ni...@nicku.org wrote: On 21/08/12 14:27 -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 7:15 AM +1000 Nick

Re: Slaving from Mirror Mode Masters

2012-09-04 Thread Nick Urbanik
result in any marked increased load on any of the servers? -- Nick Urbanik http://nicku.org ni...@nicku.org GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24

Slaving from Mirror Mode Masters

2012-09-03 Thread Nick Urbanik
being consumers to two masters result in any marked increased load on any of the servers? -- Nick Urbanik http://nicku.org 808-71011 nick.urba...@optusnet.com.au GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24 I disclaim, therefore I am.

Re: In MirrorMode - proxy or external frontend needed?

2012-09-03 Thread Nick Urbanik
some more experiments. I would be glad to hear of the results of your work. -- Nick Urbanik http://nicku.org 808-71011 nick.urba...@optusnet.com.au GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24 I disclaim, therefore I am.

Re: BDB: Converting mmapped files to shared memory: Need slap{cat,add}?

2012-08-27 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Quanah and Howard, Thank you both very much for your help. On 27/08/12 00:40 -0700, Howard Chu wrote: Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Monday, August 27, 2012 9:42 AM +1000 Nick Urbanik nick.urba...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Dear Folks, I have a large production 2.4.32 LDAP server slaving

BDB: Converting mmapped files to shared memory: Need slap{cat,add}?

2012-08-26 Thread Nick Urbanik
memory. To convert this, do I need to slapcat the directories and restore them after the configuration change with slapadd, or is it sufficient to use db_recover in each LDAP database after changing the configuration while slapd is stopped? -- Nick Urbanik http://nicku.org 808-71011 nick.urba

slapadd *very* slow: tuning advice?

2012-08-21 Thread Nick Urbanik
list QUESTIONS: == Any suggestions on how to optimise this a little more towards slapadd? Would mdb possibly be faster than bdb? -- Nick Urbanik http://nicku.org 808-71011 nick.urba...@optusnet.com.au GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24 I disclaim, therefore

Re: Is this a sensible architecture?

2012-03-14 Thread Nick Urbanik
IP methods -- split brain, false positives, what have you -- and OpenLDAP will likely serve you well. -- Nick Urbanik http://nicku.org 808-71011 nick.urba...@optusnet.com.au GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24 I disclaim, therefore I am.

What expect to log at info level?

2011-09-19 Thread Nick Urbanik
at info priority with loglevel -1? 2. Does anyone have any suggestions of what I may be missing here? -- Nick Urbanik http://nicku.org 808-71011 nick.urba...@optusnet.com.au GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24 I disclaim, therefore I am.

Re: What expect to log at info level?

2011-09-19 Thread Nick Urbanik
impractical to use at that level. Are you sure this is correct? If so, then no logging is practical with OpenLDAP, which would be rather sad. -- Nick Urbanik http://nicku.org 808-71011 nick.urba...@optusnet.com.au GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24 I disclaim

Re: What expect to log at info level?

2011-09-19 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Aaron, On 19/09/11 19:40 -0400, Aaron Richton wrote: On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Nick Urbanik wrote: What I have said is that with *only* loglevel stats, in our production servers, the write load is excessive, sometimes filling up the hard They can be large. We rotate (including compression

Re: What expect to log at info level?

2011-09-19 Thread Nick Urbanik
to need to come up with the person with that time and motivation. That person would be me. I would be happy to do the work if the prospect exists of me working towards getting the changes incorporated into the main OpenLDAP code base. This change would be very useful to us. -- Nick Urbanik http

Excessive logging at stats loglevel: any useful alternative to none?

2011-07-27 Thread Nick Urbanik
much. Can anyone suggest a useful log level here? It would be great to have some control over the verbosity of logging of each subsystem; for example, we cannot log any information about syncrepl, as that would totally fill our disks. -- Nick Urbanik http://nicku.org 808-71011 nick.urba

Re: Excessive logging at stats loglevel: any useful alternative to none?

2011-07-27 Thread Nick Urbanik
On 28/07/11 10:52 +1000, Nick Urbanik wrote: We want *some* logging, but we don't want too much. Can anyone suggest a useful log level here? It would be great to have some control over the verbosity of logging of each subsystem; for example, we cannot log any information about syncrepl

ppolicy and simpleSecurityObject exemptions

2011-04-09 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Folks, What is the best/right way to exempt system users (entries that have the simpleSecurityObject objectclass) from the ppolicy default policy? Is it to create another policy without restrictions and specify that each system user should use that policy using pwdPolicySubentry? -- Nick

Re: syncrepl slaves all quit after master restart - not a single retry

2010-08-12 Thread Nick Urbanik
problems with these configuration files, please let me know, even if they do not relate to the problem of syncrepl terminating after master is restarted. I will send further information if that would help; please let me know what would cast light on this. -- Nick Urbanik http://nicku.org 808-71011

Re: syncrepl slaves all quit after master restart - not a single retry

2010-08-12 Thread Nick Urbanik
sense. [r...@ldapro04.syd ~]# grep -P '\bretry' /var/log/ldap* [r...@ldapro04.syd ~]# No such error message seems to be present. -- Nick Urbanik http://nicku.org 808-71011 nick.urba...@optusnet.com.au GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24 I disclaim, therefore I

Re: syncrepl slaves all quit after master restart - not a single retry

2010-08-12 Thread Nick Urbanik
reply! I will happily buy you a beer or beverage of your choice if I see you at Linuxconf or elsewhere. -- Nick Urbanik http://nicku.org 808-71011 nick.urba...@optusnet.com.au GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24 I disclaim, therefore I am.

Re: Textual LDIF backup strategies for busy LDAP clusters

2010-06-29 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Quanah, On 29/06/10 08:51 -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Monday, June 28, 2010 11:42 AM +1000 Nick Urbanik nick.urba...@optusnet.com.au wrote: On 25/06/10 10:41 -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Friday, June 25, 2010 9:58 AM +1000 Nick Urbanik nick.urba...@optusnet.com.au

Re: Textual LDIF backup strategies for busy LDAP clusters

2010-06-27 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Quanah, Thanks again for taking the time to write a detailed and helpful reply. On 25/06/10 10:41 -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Friday, June 25, 2010 9:58 AM +1000 Nick Urbanik nick.urba...@optusnet.com.au wrote: On 23/06/10 21:46 -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Thursday

Re: Copying trees from one consumer to another

2010-06-23 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Quanah, Thank you again for your very helpful replies. On 22/06/10 07:57 -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Tuesday, June 22, 2010 12:24 PM +1000 Nick Urbanik nick.urba...@optusnet.com.au wrote: If so, does that mean that with syncrepl, the above operation is reduced

Re: Unigueness of RID; changing RID

2010-06-23 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Howard, On 22/06/10 07:31 -0700, Howard Chu wrote: Nick Urbanik wrote: Dear Folks, I am trying to improve my understanding of the RID before making many large deployments of syncrepl. My understanding is that the replica ID (RID) is unique within one level of [provider] -- [consumer

Re: Unigueness of RID; changing RID

2010-06-23 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Quanah, On 22/06/10 08:04 -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Tuesday, June 22, 2010 12:00 PM +1000 Nick Urbanik nick.urba...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Dear Folks, I am trying to improve my understanding of the RID before making many large deployments of syncrepl. The RID uniquely

Re: Copying trees from one consumer to another

2010-06-23 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Howard, Thank you for taking the time to answer. On 22/06/10 07:34 -0700, Howard Chu wrote: Nick Urbanik wrote: Dear Folks, With slurpd, copying a tree from one slave to another was like this: 1. stop slapd on both slaves. 2. netcat the directory across from one slave to the other. 3

Unigueness of RID; changing RID

2010-06-22 Thread Nick Urbanik
and restore? Is the RID stored in the data? Where is it stored, besides in the consumer's syncrepl configuration? -- Nick Urbanik http://nicku.org 808-71011 nick.urba...@optusnet.com.au GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24 I disclaim, therefore I am.

Copying trees from one consumer to another

2010-06-22 Thread Nick Urbanik
for replication of the database stored in the contextCSN of the suffix entry? If so, does that mean that with syncrepl, the above operation is reduced to the following three steps? 1. Stop slapd on both consumers. 2. Netcat the database from one to the other. 3. start both consumers. -- Nick Urbanik

overlay unique in cn=config

2010-06-15 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Folks, 1. Can I use the unique overlay with the dynamic cn=config configuration? 2. If so, what is the LDIF syntax for the configuration? 3. Would this work with OpenLDAP 2.3.43? -- Nick Urbanik http://nicku.org 808-71011 nick.urba...@optusnet.com.au GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A

Tool to covert from LDIF cn=config to slapd.conf?

2010-06-09 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Folks, It is nice that the tools convert from slapd.conf to the LDIF configuration. Is there a tool that converts the other way round? I could write one, but I'd rather use an existing wheel if there is one. -- Nick Urbanik http://nicku.org 808-71011 nick.urba...@optusnet.com.au GPG: 7FFA