remctl endpoints

Ken Dreyer ktdreyer at ktdreyer.com
Tue Aug 14 00:19:50 EDT 2012


On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Andy Cobaugh <phalenor at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2012-08-09 at 15:15, Ken Dreyer ( ktdreyer at ktdreyer.com ) said:
>>
>> In the course of setting up remctl for our AFS infrastructure, I was
>> wondering how other sites expose remctld servers to their users. Do
>> you have a hostname that's dedicated to this service, such as
>> remctl.example.edu ?
>
>
> I wrote a little wrapper script for remctl for afs purposes:
>
>     http://www.personal.psu.edu/~atc135/afs-control
>
> In theory you could have several remctld servers that can be used for afs
> operations (in my case, calling afs-backend with some hacks to make it use
> LDAP for access contorl). The afs-control wrapper would randomize over a
> list of hostnames in $AFS_BACKEND_SERVERS, and continue trying until it
> found one that worked.

Thank you to everyone who replied! It sounds like the best option is
to treat remctl only as a network protocol for talking to individual
servers, and build HA at a higher layer, depending on the application.

- Ken


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