Re: [Fedora-directory-users] How to make application connect to multi-master set-up?

2007-02-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Eddie C wrote: If you custom code your application you can set it up to handle multiple A records. But you need to recode your applications each application has to be reconfigured each time you add a server to the group. No it doesn't. The client just needs to retry on all the IP addresses

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] How to make application connect to multi-master set-up?

2007-02-19 Thread Eddie C
Yes, If you custom code your application you can set it up to handle multiple A records. But you need to recode your applications each application has to be reconfigured each time you add a server to the group. As to the cost factor. Yes buying a load balancer might cost $2000.00. you might be ab

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] How to make application connect to multi-master set-up?

2007-02-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Ankur Agarwal wrote: We have a weblogic app server based application which talks to RedHat LDAP through weblogic's security provider APIs. On Production env we have set-up master-master LDAP servers i.e. there are two master LDAP servers. How should i make my application connect to these 2

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] How to make application connect to multi-master set-up?

2007-02-19 Thread Eddie C
That is a viable option as well. I am always partial to using network wide solutions rather then client specific ones. We have had this problem before. Some applications are capable us talking the active backup protocal some applications are not. You get lulled into a false sence of security and y

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] How to make application connect to multi-master set-up?

2007-02-19 Thread Eddie C
Interesting question. Yes a hardware load balancers works perfectly. In the configuration of a load balancer you create a virtual IP address and it will split off the requests between two servers. I accomplished rougly the same thing with linux-ha. I created two Virtual IP addresses. Pointed half

Re: [Fedora-directory-users] How to make application connect to multi-master set-up?

2007-02-19 Thread David Boreham
Ankur Agarwal wrote: We have a weblogic app server based application which talks to RedHat LDAP through weblogic's security provider APIs. On Production env we have set-up master-master LDAP servers i.e. there are two master LDAP servers. How should i make my application connect to these 2 s

[Fedora-directory-users] How to make application connect to multi-master set-up?

2007-02-19 Thread Ankur Agarwal
Hi, We have a weblogic app server based application which talks to RedHat LDAP through weblogic's security provider APIs. On Production env we have set-up master-master LDAP servers i.e. there are two master LDAP servers. How should i make my application connect to these 2 servers?