Command Line configuration of Replication

Question

I've recently installed iDS 5.0, on Solaris 8.
I've discovered the reponse files have been scaled down from iDS 4.12.
We had utilized the SIR entries in iDS4.12 response files to automate
Supplier/Consumer installation. This feature appears to have been
removed in iDS5.0. I have identified various entries that are stored in
the dse.ldif file, when using the console to configure for multi-master
replication, but for some of the entries, such as nsDS5ReplicaName,
nsState, I don't have a clue what to assign.
I'm looking for a procedure, to configure consumers & multi-masters,
from the command-line.
I can "guess" that ldapmodify is essentially what would be used.
Trying to configure hundreds of machines for multi-master replication is
impractical via the console (GUI) interface. We need a command line
method.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Tom Sandholm
Sr. Unix Architect
Genuity
eBusiness Application Engineering

Answer 1

Tom,
Please find below 2 examples of ldapmodify commands to create replica and
replication agreements.
Regards,
Ludovic.
SUPHOST=elk
SUPPORT=389
CONS1HOST=norge
CONS1PORT=7389
MGRDN="cn=Directory Manager"
MGRPW=MySecret
BASE="ou=a"
SUPREPLICAID=2
CONS1REPLICAID=1
ldapmodify -c -b -h ${SUPHOST} -p ${SUPPORT} -D "${MGRDN}" \
-w ${MGRPW} << EOM
dn: cn=replica, cn="${BASE}", cn=mapping tree, cn=config
changetype: add
objectclass: top
objectclass: nsds5replica
objectclass: extensibleObject
cn: replica
nsds5replicaroot: ${BASE}
nsds5replicaid: ${SUPREPLICAID}
nsds5replicatype: 3
nsds5flags: 1
nsds5replicabinddn: cn=Replication Manager, cn=config
EOM
Use nsds5ReplicaType: 2 for a readonly replica.
Use nsds5ReplicaType: 3 for a master replica.
The nsds5flags: 1 means to log the changes (must be set on master or hub
replica).
You don't need to set state and name since they are generated by the
replication code.
Make sure nsds5replicaId are different for master replicas. You can use the
same replica id for all read-only consumers (but a different one from the
masters).
ldapmodify -c -b -h ${SUPHOST} -p ${SUPPORT} -D "${MGRDN}" \
-w ${MGRPW} << EOM
dn: cn=agmt${AgmtNum}, cn=replica, cn="${BASE}", cn=mapping tree, cn=config
changetype: add
objectclass: top
objectclass: nsDS5ReplicationAgreement
cn: agmt${AgmtNum}
nsDS5ReplicaHost: ${CONS1HOST}
nsDS5ReplicaPort: ${CONS1PORT}
nsDS5ReplicaBindDN: cn=Replication Manager, cn=config
nsDS5ReplicaCredentials: secret12
nsDS5ReplicaBindMethod: SIMPLE
nsDS5ReplicaRoot: ${BASE}
description: A sample replication agreement.
EOM
Tom Sandholm wrote:
I've recently installed iDS 5.0, on Solaris 8.
I've discovered the reponse files have been scaled down from iDS 4.12.
We had utilized the SIR entries in iDS4.12 response files to automate
Supplier/Consumer installation. This feature appears to have been
removed in iDS5.0. I have identified various entries that are stored in
the dse.ldif file, when using the console to configure for multi-master
replication, but for some of the entries, such as nsDS5ReplicaName,
nsState, I don't have a clue what to assign.
I'm looking for a procedure, to configure consumers & multi-masters,
from the command-line.
I can "guess" that ldapmodify is essentially what would be used.
Trying to configure hundreds of machines for multi-master replication is
impractical via the console (GUI) interface. We need a command line
method.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Tom Sandholm
Sr. Unix Architect
Genuity
eBusiness Application Engineering--
Ludovic Poitou
Sun Microsystems Inc.
iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions - Directory Group - Grenoble - France