hyc@symas.com wrote:

hyc@OpenLDAP.org wrote:

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I presume there's some kind of callback for registering new suffixes but I haven't looked very hard.

This highlights some other issues lurking in here - back-monitor basically doesn't deal with dynamic configuration well at all. It assumes that all databases and overlays have been fully configured by the time it starts - an assumption that was valid for old-style slapd.conf use, but not with back-config.

The monitor_subsys_database_init_one() function probably needs to be split into separate pieces so that database and overlay info can be set up and removed incrementally.

The point is that back-monitor has no clean means to detect what database is serving what naming context, since it was designed way ahead of back-config. So when time came to introduce monitor customization, the best mechanism I could find was the extended filter on the naming context. This is really creating trouble. The best solution would be to re-design back-monitor so that the database section mimics back-config using X-ORDERED 'SIBLING' style (and is updated accordingly, especially when entry renaming will be supported by back-config).

The X-ORDERED 'SIBLING' could be used throughout back-monitor, to get rid of those "cn=Database X", "cn=Overlay Y" stuff and so.

p.

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