CentOS - Dec 2005 - LDAP Implementations (was: Linking against a specifi c Berkeley DB install)

From: Bryan J. Smith [mailto:thebs413 at earthlink.net]
> 
> Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at BUC.com> wrote:
> > It is an interesting choice.  It supports multi-master
> > replication which I will need and has some GUI management
> > utilities.
> > Anyone know of any problems with it?
> 
> Only that many people on this list have been ignorant of what
> NsDS is in the past, even though it's in major use --
> especially before even the appearance of ADS in Windows 2000,
> let alone how well it does integrate it for ADS-to/from-NsDS
> synchronization.  I.e., NsDS can run on Windows too, and
> Fedora makes those binaries available.
> 
> I don't know if I'd trust the FDS 1.0 "open source"
version
> yet, as it's missing components last time I checked, but the
> FDS binaries?  100% NsDS 7.1 -- Linux, Windows, Solaris,
> etc...
I'm not resistant to changing programs.  We are in a testing mode now
and I have barely even started looking into how to configure
multi-master replication in OpenLDAP.

The showstopper at the moment is that FDS 1.0 does not currently
support x86_64, which is what our production servers will be running.

Bowie

Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at BUC.com> wrote:
> I'm not resistant to changing programs.
I didn't think you needed to, that's why I didn't suggest
FDS.  I only commented on FDS after several people commented,
and it was clear that was a tangent going forward.
> We are in a testing mode now and I have barely even started
> looking into how to configure multi-master replication in 
> OpenLDAP.
Oh, I had assumed you already had OpenLDAP in production.  In
that case, download FDS 7.1 (legacy binary version) from
here:  
  http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Special:Download  
> The showstopper at the moment is that FDS 1.0 does not
> currently support x86_64, which is what our production
servers
> will be running.
You can run the i386 version on x86_64.  But yeah, from a
scalability standpoint, it would be nice.


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From: Bryan J. Smith [mailto:thebs413 at earthlink.net]
> 
> Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at BUC.com> wrote:
> > I'm not resistant to changing programs.
> 
> I didn't think you needed to, that's why I didn't suggest
> FDS.  I only commented on FDS after several people commented,
> and it was clear that was a tangent going forward.
> 
> > We are in a testing mode now and I have barely even started
> > looking into how to configure multi-master replication in 
> > OpenLDAP.
> 
> Oh, I had assumed you already had OpenLDAP in production.  In
> that case, download FDS 7.1 (legacy binary version) from
> here:  
>   http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Special:Download  
> 
> > The showstopper at the moment is that FDS 1.0 does not currently
> > support x86_64, which is what our production servers will be
> > running.
> 
> You can run the i386 version on x86_64.  But yeah, from a
> scalability standpoint, it would be nice.
Their website says:

    The FDS 1.0 package includes the core DS, the Admin Server, the
    Management Console, web applications, and other support code for
    those apps, including online help. These work on 32 bit only - we
    are working on x86_64 support.

I interpreted that to mean that their i386 build would not run on
x86_64.

Bowie