Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 Administrator's Guide

The 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 -x

argument to disable SASL and allow simple authentication.

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

ldapsearch

, 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 using ldapsearch 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.

Monitoring the Directory Server from the

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