I've got a setup with a primary and replica FreeIPA server and a number of clients. When taking the primary server down briefly for an OS upgrades, everything became really slow. To simulate this, I tried blocking the primary server in a firewall rule on a test client with the same results.
Is it not supposed to just automatically switch over to talking to the replica instead? ipa hostgroup-show ipaservers
lists both servers. /etc/ipa/default.conf
on the clients does only list the primary server. Is there a quick way to switch dozens of clients to the replica in a single step? And if not, short of uninstalling and reinstalling IPA on a client how do I safely move it to a replica. In general, is it unwise to balance load by distributing clients across the two servers – I'd assume that would be sensible. I'm using ansible-freeipa to install and deploy FreeIPA.