HP UX Red Hat Direry Server Software manual Monitoring the Directory Server from the Command Line

Monitoring the Directory Server from the

Table 13.5. Global Database Cache Information

3.2. Monitoring the Directory Server from the Command Line

The Directory Server's current activities can be monitored using LDAP tools such as ldapsearch3, with the following characteristics:

•Search with the attribute filter objectClass=*.

•Use the search base cn=monitor; the monitoring attributes for the server are found in the cn=monitor entry.

•Use the search scope base.

For example:

ldapsearch -h directory.example.com -p 389 -D "cn=Directory Manager" -w password -s base

-b "cn=monitor" "(objectclass=*)"

The monitoring attributes for the Directory Server are found in the cn=monitor entry. For information on searching the Directory Server, see Section 2, “Using ldapsearch”.

Monitoring the server's activities usingldapsearch shows the following information:

Attribute	Description
version	Identifies the directory's current version
	number.
threads	The current number of active threads used for
	handling requests. Additional threads may be
	created by internal server tasks, such as
	replication or chaining.
connection:fd:opentime:opsinitiated:opscompleted:binddn:[rw]	Provides the following summary information
	for each open connection (only available if
	you bind to the directory as Directory
	Manager):
	fd — The file descriptor used for this
	connection.

3The LDAP tools referenced in this guide are Mozilla LDAP, installed with Directory Server in the

/usr/lib/mozldap directory on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 i386; directories for other platforms are listed in Section 2, “LDAP Tool Locations”. However, Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems also include LDAP tools from OpenLDAP. It is possible to use the OpenLDAP commands as shown in the examples, but you must use the -xargument to disable SASL and allow simple authentication.

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