Thanks for your patience - and apoloiges for that rookie typo error.

Fixed that and retried a few times but still to no avail - new instance is created and running ok but doesn't show up in the admin console. Where does the admin server get this list of servers etc from (and will that info help me!?).

If I install an instance on server2 and point it towards the config instance on server1 as part of the setup script then it does appear in the console and all is well in my DS world...

Seems only to cause problems when I'm trying to create a new data instance (using ds_newinst.pl) on the server1 when the config instance (created during install/setup) is already there. If there were an option to create a new instance via the console and specify a separate configuration directory it'd be easy...presumably!

Is this the normal way to do this?

Kind regards,

James

> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:03:28 -0600
> From: rmeggins@redhat.com
> To: fedora-directory-users@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Configuration Directory Question
>
> James Deuchar wrote:
> > Thanks for the swift response - size depends on the success of the
> > project - am tempted to go with external config directory assuming I
> > can get it working...
> >
> > I tried to the procedure I listed below i.e. installed the RPM, ran
> > setup to create a 'dsconfig' instance on port 5555.
> >
> > Then I created a master.inf file for inputing into the ds_newinst.pl
> > script:
> >
> > [General]
> > FullMachineName= server1.jamesd.com
> > SuiteSpotUserID= ldap
> > ServerRoot= /opt/fedora-ds
> > ConfigDirectoryAdminID= admin
> > ConfigDirectoryAdminPwd= blah
> > ConfigDirectoryLdapURL= ldap://server1.jamesd.com:5555/o=NetscapeRoot
> > AdminDomain= jamesd.com
> >
> > [slapd]
> > ServerPort= 389
> > ServerIdentifier= master01
> > Suffix= dc=jamesd,dc=com
> > RootDN= cn=Directory Manager
> > RootDNPwd= blah
> > UserExistingMC=1
> This should be "UseExistingMC" not "User"
> >
> > When I ran that it seemed to work - instance called master01 was
> > created and is running.
> >
> > When running the console though, it's not listed - only the
> > Administration Server and 'dsconfig' Directory Server instance.
> >
> > How can I make the master01 instance appear in the admin console and
> > also verify that master01 is using dsconfig to stores is configuration
> > data?
> >
> > Thanks again
> >
> >
> > > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:33:37 -0600
> > > From: rmeggins@redhat.com
> > > To: fedora-directory-users@redhat.com
> > > Subject: Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Configuration Directory Question
> > >
> > > James Deuchar wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I've got a what I thought was a relatively simple DS setup with two
> > > > master DS servers doing master-master replication. In the future
> > > > slaves may be added into the equation.
> > > >
> > > > Initially I installed both servers the same - as standalone DS' each
> > > > with it's own admin server and 'in-house' o=NetscapeRoot
> > configuration
> > > > directory.
> > > >
> > > > Reading some of the Redhat docs on 'Configuration decisions' it talks
> > > > about having the configuration directory in a separate directory
> > > > instance - based on what I've seen from the DS setup script this
> > > > implies supplying those details during the install of the real DS
> > > > instances that will contain the data.
> > > >
> > > > Is my understanding correct? Does this mean I should be installing an
> > > > independent configuration directory on both masters and setup
> > > > replication between them to provide a redundant configuration
> > > > directory alongside the redundant data directories?
> > > For small deployments, you can have your config DS and data DS be
> > the same.
> > > >
> > > > If so is the install procedure reasonable?:
> > > >
> > > > - install fedora RPM on server 1
> > > > - Run setup script to create server 1 config directory
> > > > - Run ds_newinst.pl to create data directory on the same server
> > > > pointing it to the local config directory during setup
> > > > - Repeat on server 2
> > > > - Setup replication on data masters and on config directories
> > > Sure.
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks!
> > > >
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