King0770-Notes-Merge Two Independent Machines

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Scenario: You have two ZCS machines, but they are independent of each other. Now a decision has been made to join the machines together.

Why merge two different Zimbra machines?

Possible reasons:

Section I - LDAP Passwords

Run the following command on both machines.

zmlocalconfig -s | grep pass | grep ldap

If the passwords do not match between the two machines, you will need to change the passwords so the passwords match between both machines. After changing the passwords, you will need to restart ZCS services.
(See http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=Resetting_LDAP_and_MySQL_Passwords#Resetting_the_LDAP_Password)

zmldappasswd -h
Usage: /opt/zimbra/bin/zmldappasswd [-h] [-r] [-p] [-l] newpassword
        -h: display this help message
        -a: change ldap_amavis_password
        -l: change ldap_replication_password
        -n: change ldap_nginx_password
        -p: change ldap_postfix_password
        -r: change ldap_root_passwd
        Only one of a, l, n, p, or r may be specified
        Without options zimbra_ldap_password is changed

Section II - Exporting ldap info from the ldap-replica

This is actually pretty straight forward. Basically we're going to export the ldap info into a file. Normally we can use the zmslapcat tool to export ldap info, however, we will need to parse out some superfluous info that zmslapcat would include.

Here's a small script to help facilitate this step. Basically, this will export all info the ldap-master will need to import.

#!/bin/bash

if [ `whoami` != "zimbra" ]; then
        echo "You must be the zimbra user to run this script."
exit 0
fi

echo "Creating file in /tmp."
ldapsearch -x -h `zmhostname` -D uid=zimbra,cn=admins,cn=zimbra \ 
-w `zmlocalconfig -s -m nokey zimbra_ldap_password` \ 
-LLL "(|(objectClass=zimbraDomain)(objectClass=zimbraAccount)(objectClass=zimbraCOS))" >> /tmp/`zmhostname`_`date +%F`.ldif


Section III - Importing ldap info into ldap-master

After generating the ldif file on the replica, transfer it to the ldap-master machine. And run ldapadd to import the data into the ldap-master.

Example: 
ldapadd -x -h `zmhostname` -D uid=zimbra,cn=admins,cn=zimbra -c -w `zmlocalconfig -s -m nokey zimbra_ldap_password` -f /tmp/temp.ldif"

Once the data is imported, restart ZCS services.

zmcontrol stop

zmcontrol start

Section IV - Configure the ldap-replica

At this point, we will need to configure the designated ldap-replica to be an actual ldap-replica.

For this step do the following:

ldap stop

cd /opt/zimbra/openldap-data

/opt/zimbra/sleepycat/bin/db_recover

rm alock *.bdb logs/*

cd /opt/zimbra/openldap-data/accesslog/db

/opt/zimbra/sleepycat/bin/db_recover

rm -rf /opt/zimbra/openldap-data/accesslog

ldap start

Change that server’s local config file to designate it as a replica. Type:

zmlocalconfig –e ldap_master_url="ldap://master_directory_address:389"
zmlocalconfig –e ldap_url="ldap://replica_directory_address:389 ldap://master_directory_address:389"
zmlocalconfig –e ldap_is_master=false
zmlocalconfig -e ldap_host=master_directory_address
/opt/zimbra/libexec/zmldapenablereplica


Or you can script it.


#!/bin/bash

echo "Enable Replication"

echo "What is the hostname of the ldap master?"
read MAST

zmlocalconfig -e ldap_is_master=false
zmlocalconfig -e ldap_master_url="ldap://$MAST:389"
zmlocalconfig -e ldap_url="ldap://`zmhostname`:389 ldap://$MAST:389"
zmlocalconfig -e ldap_host=$MAST

sleep 1

echo "Running zmldapenablereplica"
/opt/zimbra/libexec/zmldapenablereplica

After making the changes for ldap replication, be sure to restart ZCS services.

zmcontrol stop

zmcontrol start


Don't forget to run "zmupdateauthkeys" on both machines to update their SSH keys

Section V - Test

After both machines have been rebooted, each machine should be able to see each other.

Run the following command from the ldap-replica, both machines should be displayed. If you can see both machines, the merge was successful.

zmprov gas

And run the following to see all the users from the ldap-replica

zmprov gaa

Section VI - Undocumented / Potential Issues

Will document any known issues as I am made aware. More to follow I am sure.

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