On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:18 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 3 servers now in a FOG. I want to add another sunray server to a > remote office. > I want the new server to share the user database so that user creation is > centralised. > However, I don't want my Sunrays to failover or load-balanced to the remote > site. > > Can I do that?
It's not a supported configuration, but you can do it if you want. Just give the new server a different group signature when 'utconfig' asks for it, then use utreplica the same way you'd do it if the servers were in the same group. One thing you need to remember is that if you make changes that require an SRSS restart (for instance, a major access policy change like turning on NSCM) you'll have to do that separately for the remote system. It won't be a member of the group, therefore a group-wide restart from the web GUI won't affect it. If you add or delete multihead group definitions those won't be automatically detected either, you'll need to do a warm restart at the remote site (whichever site didn't run the 'utmhadm' command) to have it start using the new definition. There was a similar discussion on the list almost exactly a year ago. That's in the thread at <http://www.filibeto.org/pipermail/sunray-users/2007-April/006306.html>. In that case Trevor was going to give all of the servers the same group signature and was depending on the network to prevent the servers from seeing each other and joining up into one large group. You could do it that way too. The main difference is that if the servers have the same signature then the admins at one site can (although this is undocumented and unsupported) use the 'utrcmd' tool to perform some SRSS administrative operations on the other site's machines. I'd probably give them different group signatures in order to disallow 'utrcmd', and require the admins log in over 'ssh' if they needed to manage the machines at the other site. OttoM. __ ottomeister Disclaimer: These are my opinions. I do not speak for my employer. _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
