Hello

We've failed to deploy a replica in a remote DC, initially the CA Master (ipa_server1) was in a location that this remote DC could not reach so I moved the CA to a contactable IPA server in another location (ipa_server2.)

I still receive CA_REJECTED however and I suspect we may have hit https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1498523 as the previous week, a colleague of mine rebuilt all of our existing IPA deployment using the Damascus Group export/import scripts (his task was to migrate from SUSE Linux to Oracle Linux and upgrade IPA to 4.5.0) If we have hit this issue, I do not feel comfortable carrying out the steps Flo mentions in #c24. 'ipa-getcert list' certainly shows the remote ipa install trying to connect to itself for certificates.


After moving the CA Master to ipa_server2 (contactable) we get the same result as before for ipa-getcert list, but also notice an INFO message when running the ipa-replica-install command in the remote DC.

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INFO Waiting up to 300 seconds to see our keys appear on host: ipa_server1 (the un-contactable one)

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I thought connections between IPA servers were only required along replication agreement paths, this INFO message suggests we might need connectivity between all nodes - perhaps it's just during the install process - I'm unsure.



So we've opted to connect the sssd clients in the remote DC to IPA servers in our 2 main DCs, which goes against best practises of having at least 2 IPA servers per DC. I will connect the clients to an IPA server in DC1 and another IPA server in DC2 as each DC has a VPN tunnel connecting to the remote site. The rhel7 documentation does not explain why best practises requires at least 2 IPAs per DC - any thoughts on this setup and best practises recommendation?


Thanks for your time.


Regards

Angus