IPA Master won't start and replicas are not taking over

[Randy Morgan]

Over the weekend our IPA Master failed and I can not get ipactl to 
start, the Directory Service fails.  We have two replicas and I was 
under the impression that if one of the servers failed the others would 
pickup the load, that is not happening however, and we have been down 
for two days now.  Is there something that I need to do to the replicas 
to make one of them the new master, and if so could you walk me through 
the conversion?

Thanks,

Randy

-- 
Randy Morgan
CSR
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Brigham Young University
801-422-4100

[Rob Crittenden]

Randy Morgan via FreeIPA-users wrote:
>  Over the weekend our IPA Master failed and I can not get ipactl to
>  start, the Directory Service fails.  We have two replicas and I was
>  under the impression that if one of the servers failed the others would
>  pickup the load, that is not happening however, and we have been down
>  for two days now.  Is there something that I need to do to the replicas
>  to make one of them the new master, and if so could you walk me through
>  the conversion? 
Failover depends on your configuration and what isn't failing over. Can
you provide more details on what isn't working? Be sure to include
detrails on how your clients are configured, whether your IPA servers
have DNS srv records, etc.

Once we get that working we can tackle what is going on with the failed
master.

rob

[Felipe Barreto Volpone]

Randy,

Actually, there is not much difference between a replica and a master (in
general),
you can check more details in this blog post from rcrit:
https://blog-rcritten.rhcloud.com/?p=67

About Dir. Server failing, could you share the logs?
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Directory_Server/8....


On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Randy Morgan via FreeIPA-users <
freeipa-users(a)lists.fedorahosted.org&gt; wrote:

>  Over the weekend our IPA Master failed and I can not get ipactl to
> start,
>  the Directory Service fails.  We have two replicas and I was under the
>  impression that if one of the servers failed the others would pickup the
>  load, that is not happening however, and we have been down for two days
>  now.  Is there something that I need to do to the replicas to make one of
>  them the new master, and if so could you walk me through the conversion?
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Randy
>
>  --
>  Randy Morgan
>  CSR
>  Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
>  Brigham Young University
>  801-422-4100
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