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Monitoring LDAP

Get current connections number

perl check_ldap_monitor.pl -vvv -H localhost -D cn=monitor,dc=server,dc=tld -P password  -T currentconnections -w 250 -c 300 -m greater -f

Check that a record is present

perl check_ldap_dn.pl -H localhost -p 389 -D cn=monitor,dc=server,dc=tld -W password -b cn=Active,cn=Threads,cn=monitor

Count the number of returned records

perl check_ldap_query.pl -H localhost -p 389 -D cn=monitor,dc=server,dc=tld -P password -b cn=Open,cn=Threads,cn=monitor -w 200 -c 250 -m greater -v

Monitoring

https://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/monitoringslapd.html

  • Example

    ldapsearch -h localhost -D cn=monitor,dc=server,dc=tld -b cn=Tasklist,cn=Threads,cn=monitor -w password -s sub '(objectClass=\*)' '*' '+'

  • Report only a specific metric

    ldapsearch -h localhost -D cn=monitor,dc=server,dc=tld -b cn=Read,cn=Waiters,cn=monitor -w password -LL -s sub '(objectClass=*)' monitorCounter | grep monitorCounter | cut -d" " -f2