MMC network plugin configuration file

Cédric Delfosse

<cdelfosse@mandriva.com>

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Revision $Revision: 1623 $	$Date: 2008-06-02 14:51:55 +0200 (Mon, 02 Jun 2008) $	$Author: cdelfosse $

Abstract

This document explains the content of the MMC network plugin configuration file

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Configuration file sections
3. Section « main »
4. Section « dns »
5. Section « dhcp »

1. Introduction

The « network » plugin allows the MMC Python API to manage DNS zones and hosts, DHCP subnet and hosts, into a LDAP. Patched version of ISC BIND (with LDAP sdb backend) and ISC DHCP (with LDAP configuration file backend) are needed.

The plugin configuration file is /etc/mmc/plugins/network.ini.

Like all MMC related configuration file, its file format is INI style. The file is made of sections, each one starting with a « [sectionname] » header. In each section options can be defined like this « option = value ».

For example:

        [section1]
        option1 = 1
        option2 = 2

        [section2]
        option1 = foo
        option2 = plop

2. Configuration file sections

Here are all the network.ini available sections

Table 1. network.ini available sections

Section name	Description	Optional
main	global network plugin configuration	yes
dns	DNS related configuration	no
dhcp	DHCP related configuration	no

3. Section « main »

This sections defines the global options of the network plugin.

Table 2. Available options for the "main" section

Option name	Description	Optional	Default value
disable	Is the plugin disabled	yes	1

4. Section « dns »

This section defines where DNS needed files, directories and LDAP entities are located.

When the plugin starts for the first time, it creates:

the directory bindroot/named.ldap. This directory will contains all zones definitions
the file bindroot/named.conf.ldap. This file will include all the zone definitions stored into bindroot/named.ldap/

Table 3. Available options for the "dns" section

Option name	Description	Optional
dn	LDAP DN where the DNS zones are stored	no
logfile	path to BIND log file	no
pidfile	path to BIND pid file	no
init	BIND init script	no
bindchrootconfpath	path to the named.ldap directory inside the BIND chroot. Don't set it if BIND is not into a chroot.	no
bindroot	path to the BIND configuration file directory	no
bindgroup	gid which BIND is running ("bind" or "named")	no
dnsreader	LDAP user DN to use to read zone info	yes
dnsreaderpassword	password of the user specified in dnsreader	not if dnsreader is set

Here is an example for a Mandriva Corporate Server 4:

      [dns]
      dn = ou=DNS,dc=mandriva,dc=com
      pidfile = /var/lib/named/var/run/named.pid
      init = /etc/rc.d/init.d/named
      logfile = /var/log/messages
      bindroot = /var/lib/named/etc/
      bindchrootconfpath = /etc
      bindgroup = named
      dnsreader = uid=DNS Reader,ou=System Accounts,dc=mandriva,dc=com
      dnsreaderpassword = s3cr3t

5. Section « dhcp »

This section defines where DHCP related files and LDAP entities are located.

Table 4. Available options for the "backup-tools" section

Option name	Description	Optional
dn	LDAP DN where the DHCP server configuration is stored	no
pidfile	path to DHCP server pidfile	no
init	path to DHCP service init script	no
logfile	path to DHCP service log file	no
leases	path to DHCP service leases file	no