[389-users] Can an admin server manage remote directory servers?

[Rich Megginson]

On 09/11/2012 09:24 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Can an admin server manage remote directory servers?  The docs always 
> seems to refer to running an admin server alongside the directory 
> server, but in the case of running a slave directory server, it would 
> be nice to be able to manage that from the admin server on our main 
> directory server machine.  Is that possible?
No.  Every machine must have 1 admin server (389-admin).
>
> Also, should the instance name of the slave server be different than 
> the instance name of the primary server?  It doesn't seem to be a 
> requirement, and I'm not sure what is more or less confusing.
It's probably easier to search for it if the name is unique, but I don't 
think it will break the console.
>
> Thanks!
>