Our Dirrectory Service environment is configured with one Master [DS ver 5.2], and three consumers [ver 5.2]. We are looking into deploying a second master, and then placing them behind two master tier proxy servers. Does anyone know of a procedure [ set of instructions other than the sun docs] that would assist in making this task go smoothly ?
This is pretty straightforward.
Install DS on a new machine, configure it exactly like the initial Master but with a different ReplicaID.
Create a Replication Agreement on initial Master to the new server (master).
Initialize the new server (either by binary copy, or online init).
Create replication agreements on the new Master to the initial one and the 3 consumers.
Now, install and configure your proxy servers, and make sure all your clients are now directed to the proxy.
Create an instance, configure it (suffix, indexes, enable replication)...
Schema and Data can be initialized from the first Master online.
It's pretty straightforward using the console.
If initializing the server with LDIF exported from the first Master with replication inforation, then yes, the schema should be copied before.
By the way, this is fully documented in the Replication section of the Administration Manual.
Regards,
Ludovic
