Bug 12556 - samba_kcc gives either too much debug information or nothing
Summary: samba_kcc gives either too much debug information or nothing
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Samba 4.1 and newer
Classification: Unclassified
Component: AD: LDB/DSDB/SAMDB (show other bugs)
Version: 4.6.0rc1
Hardware: All All
: P5 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Andrew Bartlett
QA Contact: Samba QA Contact
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Reported: 2017-02-02 11:33 UTC by Stefan Metzmacher
Modified: 2024-04-11 00:06 UTC (History)
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Description Stefan Metzmacher 2017-02-02 11:33:08 UTC 
E.g. if a site is not listed as 'siteList' in the siteLink object
samba_kcc silently doesn't replicate with any other server,
thinks like these are very hard to debug.

samba_kcc --debug gives too much information for a normal administrator
to find the problem.

It would be good to have an output like this:

Intrasite DC=MYNAME SITE=MYSITE:
Available DCs:
DC1[online], DC2[WERR_HOST_UNREACHABLE], MYNAME, DC3[online], DC4[online], DC5[online], DC6[online], DC7[online], DC8[online]
Selecting by ring topology: DC1, DC3
Optimizing connection(s) to: DC6
ISTG[MYNAME]
Intersite replication required for the following Transport/Links:
IP:DEFAULTIPSITELINK
Available Bridgeheads:
DC1[auto], DC2[WERR_HOST_UNREACHABLE], MYNAME, DC3[online], DC4[online], DC5[online], DC6[online], DC7[online], DC8[online]
Available Sites:
SITE1, SITE2, SITE3, MYSITE, SITE4, SITE5, SITE6, SITE7, SITE8
Selecting by ring topology: SITE3/DC37[auto], SITE4/DC42[preferred]
Adding optimizing connection(s) to: SITE8/DC85[preferred]
...
Update connections:
MYNAME=>DC3 adding DC=newdomain,DC=addom,DC=example,DC=com
Add connections:
MYNAME=>DC1 for DC=... and DC=Schema, ...
MYNAME=>DC6 for DC=... and DC=Schema, ...
Removing connections:
MYNAME=>DC2
Found non-autogenerated connections:
....
Sync connections to repsFrom/repsTo:
DC=addom,DC=example,DC=com
Update repsFrom DC3
Remove repsFrom DC2
DC=newdomain,DC=addom,DC=example,DC=com
Add repsFrom DC3
...

I hope you got the idea.

The idea if that someone reading "How Active Directory Replication Topology Works" https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755994(v=ws.10).aspx
has a chance to understand what's going on.