Build companion domain controller alongside Samson
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samson
the https://wiki.ucc.asn.au/ActiveDirectory server has no freshly built DC friends- (and no successfully tested backups/restores)
- e.g. export/import style, enabling consistent file-based backups: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Back_up_and_Restoring_a_Samba_AD_DC
- snapshot backups of the whole machine #75 are currently running weekly; but
- they have not been empirically tested by us for this sort of "database" application
- can we truly trust them to be a completely atomic snapshot? or to be "crashed" with fresh boot and recover every time?
- most reliably combined with taking "quiesced" backups with the services or whole server shut down?
- this is risky, a single-point-of-failure
- which in turn depends on the running VM cluster
- something to do with the current configuration is probably why we still have occasional auth problems, e.g.
mussel
?- can we upgrade or rebuild or document our way out of this?
- ...so making a quick clone and calling it "done" really isn't enough, continuous integration is called for?
- vucc testbed in https://wiki.ucc.asn.au/NewActiveDirectory
- (and no successfully tested backups/restores)
Action items:
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[BOB], [333], and [NTU] to learn more about (SAMBA) AD and how it works, along with Linux AD integration options -
Using this knowledge, build new DC -
Fix any other lingering AD issues that can be tracked in this Issue, or otherwise raise separate issues for them
Edited by Nick Bannon