Re: Mirrormode Docs

Dieter Kluenter wrote:
> Hi,
> to my understanding the admin guide on mirrormode is misleading.
> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/replication.html#MirrorMode
> According to this documentation both nodes have to be put into
> mirror mode, as far as I understand the concept of mirror mode, and is
> described in slapd.conf(5), there is one node accepting write
> operations, that is 'mirrormode on' statement, the other node acts as
> synrepl consumer and a hot standby only, with 'mirrormode off'.
> Could someone please correct me, if I'm wrong.

The doc is correct. For seamless failover to work automatically, without any 
manual intervention, both nodes must be configured identically.

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