Questions about replica

[Dmitry Krasov]

Hello.
just installed replica (ipa2.dom.loc), it seems works fine.

But how enrolled clients will know about this replica, if primary server will be down?
And how to make ipa2.dom.loc to work as primary server?

[Rizwan Shaikh]

Hi,
The difference between server and replica is crl generation role.
If you want to promote another server in topology to be a CRL master, you
can look at
https://www.freeipa.org/page/V4/Promotion_to_CRL_generation_master.
for the other part, I found this
https://serverfault.com/questions/751815/how-does-ipa-client-know-when-ipa-f...

On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 12:27 PM Dmitry Krasov via FreeIPA-users <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hello.
> just installed replica (ipa2.dom.loc), it seems works fine.
>
> But how enrolled clients will know about this replica, if primary server
> will be down?
> And how to make ipa2.dom.loc to work as primary server?
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[Florence Blanc-Renaud]

Hi,

On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 8:57 AM Dmitry Krasov via FreeIPA-users <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hello.
> just installed replica (ipa2.dom.loc), it seems works fine.
>
> But how enrolled clients will know about this replica, if primary server
> will be down?

If you installed the clients using DNS Autodiscovery i.e. without the
--server option (please refer to ipa-client-install(1) man page, especially
the sections *DNS Autodiscovery* and *The Failover Mechanism*), then the
failover should happen automatically. When the client's SSSD configuration
file (/etc/sssd/sssd.conf) contains the _srv_ keyword in the ipa_server
parameter, it means that SSSD uses service discovery through DNS to find an
active server. More information in sssd-ipa(5) man page, in the *Failover*
and *Service Discovery* sections.

Hope this clarifies,
flo

And how to make ipa2.dom.loc to work as primary server?
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[Dmitry Krasov]

My enroll command:

sudo ipa-client-install --fixed-primary --enable-dns-updates --server ipa.dom.loc --domain dom.loc --mkhomedir --force-join -p admin -w password -U
----client sssd.conf:

[domain/dom.loc]

id_provider = ipa

ipa_server = ipa. dom.loc

ipa_domain = dom.loc

ipa_hostname = desktoppc.dom.loc

auth_provider = ipa

chpass_provider = ipa

access_provider = ipa

cache_credentials = True

ldap_tls_cacert = /etc/ipa/ca.crt

dyndns_update = True

dyndns_iface = ens18

krb5_store_password_if_offline = True

[sssd]

services = nss, pam, ssh, sudo
domains = dom.loc

[nss]

homedir_substring = /home

[pam]
[sudo]
[autofs]
[ssh]
[pac]
[ifp]
[session_recording]
---------------

So, failover should be fine?

[Rob Crittenden]

Dmitry Krasov via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> My enroll command:
>
> sudo ipa-client-install --fixed-primary --enable-dns-updates --server ipa.dom.loc --domain dom.loc --mkhomedir --force-join -p admin -w password -U
> ----client sssd.conf:
>
> [domain/dom.loc]
>
> id_provider = ipa
>
> ipa_server = ipa. dom.loc
>
> ipa_domain = dom.loc
>
> ipa_hostname = desktoppc.dom.loc
>
> auth_provider = ipa
>
> chpass_provider = ipa
>
> access_provider = ipa
>
> cache_credentials = True
>
> ldap_tls_cacert = /etc/ipa/ca.crt
>
> dyndns_update = True
>
> dyndns_iface = ens18
>
> krb5_store_password_if_offline = True
>
> [sssd]
>
> services = nss, pam, ssh, sudo
> domains = dom.loc
>
> [nss]
>
> homedir_substring = /home
>
> [pam]
> [sudo]
> [autofs]
> [ssh]
> [pac]
> [ifp]
> [session_recording]
>
> So, failover should be fine?

No. --fixed-primary configures SSSD to only use a specific IPA server.

For failover you either need multiple server (there is no option for
this) or don't use fixed-primary and SSSD will be configured with _srv_
so that it can find other IPA servers in DNS.

rob

[Dmitry Krasov]

If I will change line in sssd.conf  file to "ipa_server = ipa_server = _srv_, ipa.dom.loc" on existent enrolled clients. Will they work fine with failover?

[Rob Crittenden]

Dmitry Krasov via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> If I will change line in sssd.conf  file to "ipa_server = ipa_server = _srv_, ipa.dom.loc" on existent enrolled clients. Will they work fine with failover?

You duplicated ipa_server = but otherwise yes.

You can have the _srv_ last if you want to point to a specific server as
primary.

rob