Re: Oracle Internet Directory High Availability solutions

Laurenz, thanks for your input. Any additional software is required for LDAP replication? Where can I obtain the set up instructions?

thanks.

Laurenz Albe wrote:
> amy <amykline_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > We would like to know how others implement high availability solutions
> > for OID. What are some of the high availability options for OID 10g?
> >
> > We selected the High Availability Oracle Multimaster replication option
> > during installation but somehow we could not get the replication to
> > work. Records saved at the master node were not replicated to the other
> > OID node. not sure why. We used OID solely for database service name
> > resolution.
> >
> > Is setting up Oracle replication or Oracle streams manually for OID
> > supported? If it is supported, what schemas should we replicate?
>
> I also tried to install OID with multimaster replication and
> failed. I did not persue the problem, but there are several Metalink
> entries about that.
> If I remember correctly, you should truncate certain tables in the
> repository database before starting the oidrepld.
>
> We decided not to use multimaster replication because it is quite
> complicated, costs additional licenses (I think) and requires extra
> attention during upgrades.
>
> What we chose, and what I would recommend unless you have good reasons not
> to do so, is LDAP replication.
>
> High availibility is guaranteed: if you shutdown either OID, clients
> will use the other one for name resolution.
>
>
> urs,
> Laurenz Albe
Received on Wed Apr 05 2006 - 10:10:46 CDT