Open Directory service running on JSS Box?

[#1]

Folks,

Anyone have opinion or experience:

I would like to run Open Directory on the same box that is hosting my
JSS.

All thoughts appreciated. Thanks in advance!

-pat

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[ernstcs]

I thonk it really depends on how many clients you manage, and if that is also your only distribution point. But I think OD doesn't take a super huge load on the server, not that I run OD anymore.

Craig Ernst
UW-Eau Claire
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[#3]

Are you also planning on Network Home Directories on this server?
If not, I don't see a problem - but as Craig pointed out it all depends on
how many users, and more specific, how many concurrent users will be
authenticating.

Of course it also depends on how much CPU the JSS is taking up. Best case
would be to run JSS alone for a couple months and look at the CPU/Network
utilization. If it is minimal then you shouldn't have a problem adding
other services, like OD.
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[jarednichols]

I'd agree with that statement. Though, I'd consider virtualizing those ancillary services. Keep your JSS on the live metal and then run a server VM with the other services. Yes, you're running on the same hardware so if you do have some sort of failure they'd all go down, but that would be the same case if they're all run off the same instance anyway. The benefit would be keeping things sandboxed. If you're unsure of configurations on new services that you're bringing up, you won't have to worry about client connections to the JSS while you're mucking around on the new stuff.

j

[tlarkin]

It depends on how heavy of a load the server gets. I got 1 ODM and 18
to 20 replicas with over 7000 user accounts in my directory. I had my
boss buy me an actual server independent of OD that I run my JSS on. Before I had a dual G5 xserve for the JSS and to be honest, in my
environment it was getting respited because of too many clients checking
in at once. The mysql daemon was owning that server. I upgraded to
dual quad core xeons and 8gigs of RAM and never looked back. My JSS
peeks every day to around 20% of the CPU used and about 75% of the RAM
used.

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