Monitoring Your Server From The Command Line - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.2 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Monitoring Server Activity

Monitoring Your Server From the Command Line

You can monitor your Directory Server's current activities from any LDAP
client by performing a search operation with the following characteristics:
• Search for attribute
• Search base:
• Search scope:
For example:
ldapsearch -h directory.example.com -s base -b "cn=monitor"
"(objectclass=*)"
For information on searching the Directory Server, see "Using ldapsearch," on
page 532.
The monitoring attributes for your server are found in the
entry.
When you monitor your server's activities using
following information:
•
version
•
threads
Additional threads may be created by internal server tasks, such as replication
or chaining.
•
connection:fd:opentime:opsinitiated:opscompleted:binddn:[rw]
following summary information for each open connection (only available if
you bind to the directory as the Directory Manager ):
By default, this information is available to you only if you bind to the directory
as the Directory Manager. However, you can change the ACI associated with
this information to allow others to access the information.
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objectClass=*
cn=monitor
base
: Identifies the directory's current version number.
: Current number of active threads used for handling requests.
—The file descriptor used for this connection.
fd
—The time this connection was opened.
opentime
—The number of operations initiated by this connection.
opsinitiated
—The number of operations completed.
opscompleted
—The distinguished name used by this connection to connect to the
binddn
directory.
—The field shown if the connection is blocked for read or write.
rw
cn=monitor,cn=config
, you see the
ldapsearch
: Provides the