You’ve got Open Directory running and humming beautifully in OS X Server 5 (running on OS X Yosemite or OS X El Capitan). You show up to work and the hard drive has died on that perfectly configured Open Directory Master. Luckily, you have a replica and you have an archive of your Master. You can restore or you can promote your Replica to a Master. What to do? Well, I can’t tell you what you should do, but I can tell you that Apple has planned for this. Here, we’re going to look at promoting that Replica to a Master. Because after all, hard drives fail. Let’s look at…
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Setting Up Open Directory Replicas With Lion Server
In Lion Server, Open Directory can be managed in one of three ways: using the Server application the Server Admin application or using the command line utilities. Configuring Open Directory has never been easier than it is in the Server application, though. As we looked at in a previous article, setting up an Open Directory master should be done using the Server application. But setting up an Open Directory replica should be done using the Server Admin application. The Server Admin application is not installed when you buy OS X Server on the App Store and so it can be obtained here. But first (or while that’s downloading even), open…