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18.3. Accessing Monitoring Information

As previously discussed, when enabled, the monitor backend dynamically generates and returns objects in response to search requests in the cn=Monitor subtree. Each object contains information about a particular aspect of the server. The information is held in a combination of user applications and operational attributes. This information can be access with ldapsearch(1), with any general-purpose LDAP browser, or with specialized monitoring tools.

This section provides a provides a brief tutorial on how to use ldapsearch(1) to access monitoring information.

To inspect any particular monitor object, one performs search operation on the object with a baseObject scope and a (objectClass=*) filter. As the monitoring information is contained in a combination of user applications and operational attributes, the return all user applications attributes (e.g., '*') and all operational attributes (e.g., '+') should be requested. For instance, to read the cn=Monitor object itself, the ldapsearch(1) command (modified to fit your configuration) can be used:

        ldapsearch -x -D 'cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com' -W \
                -b 'cn=Monitor' -s base '(objectClass=*)' '*' '+'

When run against your server, this should produce output similar to:

        dn: cn=Monitor
        objectClass: monitorServer
        structuralObjectClass: monitorServer
        cn: Monitor
        creatorsName:
        modifiersName:
        createTimestamp: 20061208223558Z
        modifyTimestamp: 20061208223558Z
        description: This subtree contains monitoring/managing objects.
        description: This object contains information about this server.
        description: Most of the information is held in operational attributes, which
         must be explicitly requested.
        monitoredInfo: OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4 (Dec  7 2006 17:30:29)
        entryDN: cn=Monitor
        subschemaSubentry: cn=Subschema
        hasSubordinates: TRUE

To reduce the number of uninteresting attributes returned, one can be more selective when requesting which attributes are to be returned. For instance, one could request the return of all attributes allowed by the monitorServer object class (e.g., @objectClass) instead of all user and all operational attributes:

        ldapsearch -x -D 'cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com' -W \
                -b 'cn=Monitor' -s base '(objectClass=*)' '@monitorServer'

This limits the output as follows:

        dn: cn=Monitor
        objectClass: monitorServer
        cn: Monitor
        description: This subtree contains monitoring/managing objects.
        description: This object contains information about this server.
        description: Most of the information is held in operational attributes, which
         must be explicitly requested.
        monitoredInfo: OpenLDAP: slapd 2.X (Dec  7 2006 17:30:29)

To return the names of all the monitoring objects, one performs a search of cn=Monitor with subtree scope and (objectClass=*) filter and requesting no attributes (e.g., 1.1) be returned.

        ldapsearch -x -D 'cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com' -W -b 'cn=Monitor' -s sub 1.1

If you run this command you will discover that there are many objects in the cn=Monitor subtree. The following section describes some of the commonly available monitoring objects.


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