[389-users] Registering to a central admin server

[Rich Megginson]

Chris Phillips wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Rich Megginson <rmeggins at redhat.com 
> <mailto:rmeggins at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>     Chris Phillips wrote:
>
>
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>         On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Rich Megginson
>         <rmeggins at redhat.com <mailto:rmeggins at redhat.com>
>         <mailto:rmeggins at redhat.com <mailto:rmeggins at redhat.com>>> wrote:
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>            Chris Phillips wrote:
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>                Hi,
>
>                Can someone describe how to register an existing dirsrv
>                instance to an existing admin server? The ds-setup-admin.pl
>                scripts clearly performs the registration exercise
>         along with
>                the build, but I can't see how to do this as a single, 100%
>                safe non-destructive way of registering existing
>         machines to a
>                central admin server, to avoid having to annoyingly
>         connect to
>                admin instances on evey existing machine as we
>         currently have to.
>
>            You should be able to use register-ds-admin.pl, or use
>            setup-ds-admin.pl -u to update software/version information
>         in the
>            console.
>
>
>         Hi again,
>
>         I've been trying to do this, but I can't see how to register
>         with a different centralized server. at no point in the
>         register-ds-admin.pl steps can I give an alternative server
>         name / IP address to go off and connect to. Any tips?
>
>     Try editing /etc/dirsrv/admin-serv/adm.conf to point to the
>     correct server, then try register-ds-admin.pl
>
>
> Can we not have multiple ones? We'd want to be able to aggregate them 
> back to a main console, but also connect to the machine itself if need 
> be. Or could we just change the details temporarily?
It's not really designed for that - it's designed to have all servers 
registered in a central configuration directory server (o=NetscapeRoot), 
but I suppose with some hacking you could make it work.
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris
>
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