Red Hat: Identity Management Server Setup and HA on RHEL 7

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Introduction

Red Hat Identity Management Server provides is a centralized identity management server for Linux, Mac, Windows.

In this post we are going to setup and configure a HA deployment of Red Hat IDM on two RHEL 7.x servers.

Red Hat Identity Management Server is based on the upstream project, FreeIPA.

Prerequisites

Only a couple of prerequisites for a simple lab setup

  • You need working dns with forward and reverse entries for both IDM servers
  • NSCD needs to be disabled on each IDM server
  • Proper hostname needs to be set on each IDM node (cannot use localhost)
  • IPV6 needs to be enabled, but you do not need to have an IPV6 address on external interfaces

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