Thank you Buchan, Henry and Richton. Those messages were helpful. I shall go through all your suggestions and get back to you guys.!!
Cheers, Imran On Feb 12, 2008 10:12 PM, Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 12 February 2008 09:28:12 Ishklight wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to set up openldap servers to be available all the time. > > What aspect needs to be available all the time? Reads, or writes? > > If reads need to be available all the time, make sure you have sufficient > slaves (taking into account network topology). > > If you need HA for writes, then you either need to go with multi-master > (you > may still need some cluster middleware or load-balancer to ensure that > clients always get to a live server), or you need to go with an HA cluster > with some kind of shared storage. > > > Also, how would I test my requirement? > > Once you have a technical requirement (and not just a wish), it should be > easy > to write and implement a test case. In short, this is your job, I'm not > going > to do it for you (unless you pay me). I doubt others on this list will > either. > > > Is it possible to set up highly available openLDAP servers? > > Yes, for over two years I have been running an OpenLDAP 2.3 HA cluster, > with > (according to our monitoring system) 100% availability. > > (I note that the two slaves in that deployment have availability of 100% > and > 99.99% ...). > > Regards, > Buchan >
