Troubleshooting guide

Miscellaneous 119
23.22 Listening on Multiple NICs Slows Down eDirectory
ldapsearch Performance
To work around this issue,
Disable the NICs in the configuration file that slow down the ldapsearch performance.
or
Enable Advanced Referral Costing (ARC) by using the
set NDSTRACE =!ARC1 command in DSTrace.
23.23 Unable to Limit the Number of Concurrent Users on UNIX/
Linux Platforms
In eDirectory 8.8 SP7, you cannot limit the number of concurrent connections on UNIX or Linux
platforms. To resort to the old behavior (strict port-based checking), set following parameter in the
nds.conf file.
n4u.server.mask-port-number=0
23.24 ndsd Fails to Shut Down Due to SLP
If you do not have an SLP Directory Agent (DA) configured on your network, finding services that
use SLP may take a longer time. During eDirectory shutdown, ndsd tries to perform operations using
SLP that may take a long time than the init script normally allows, thus causing a forced shutdown.
To workaround this issue:
1. Create an empty file with the name
hosts.nds in the config directory. The config directory of a
server can be obtained by running the following command
ndsconfig get
n4u.server.confdir
2. Set an environment variable NDS_USESLP to 0 by specifying export NDS_USESLP=0 in / opt/
novell/eDirectory/sbin/pre_ndsd_start
3. Restart eDirectory.
23.25 eDirectory Does Not Support Symbolic Links for DIB
Location
To relocate the eDirectory DIB to a new partition when the current location has run out of space, we
recommend you to use the
n4u.nds.dibdir parameter. By default, the value of this parameter is /
var/opt/novell/eDirectory/data/dib
.
If the DIB is relocated to a new partition
/space , the new value for this parameter is
n4u.nds.dibdir=/space/data/dib .
This recommendation also applies when
RFL , data , log , nds.conf , instances.<uid> , and binary
files are moved to the new locations.