LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.00 Administrator's Guide

Administering LDAP-UX Client Services
Performance Considerations
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Performance Considerations
This section lists some performance considerations for LDAP-UX Client
Services. See the white paper LDAP-UX Integration Performance and
Tuning Guidelines at:
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/internet/#LDAP-UX%20Integration
for additional performance information.
Minimizing Enumeration Requests
Enumeration requests are directory queries that request all of a
database, for example all users or all groups. Enumeration requests of
large databases could reduce network and server performance. For this
reason, you may want to restrict the use of commands and applications
that enumerate.
The following commands generate enumeration requests:
• finger(1)
• grget(1) with no options
• pwget(1) with no options
• groups(1)
• listusers(1)
• logins(1M)
• All netgroup calls
In addition, applications written with routines of families such as the
getpwent, getgrent, gethostent, and getnetent family of calls can
enumerate a map, depending on how they are written.