Overview

This chapter explains how to discover MySQL database servers that replicate data in a master-slave relationship.

Replication enables data from one MySQL database server (the master) to be replicated to one or more MySQL database servers (the slaves). For details on replication, see the MySQL manual on the MySQL Web site: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replication-howto.html.

Currently all information about databases is retrieved through Shell protocols from the MySQL configuration file.

The job responsible for MySQL discovery is MySQL by Shell.