On Tuesday, 5 June 2007, Scott Feldstein wrote:

Hello, I was looking at the docs on http://www.openldap.org/devel/admin/ monitoringslapd.html and section 13.1 (cn=config) has yet to be written.

Could anyone give me a brief description what what that is?

I assume this section would be on how to configure back-monitor via back-config, for now, converting your slapd.conf (that you set up for back-monitor in 13.3) would do what is necessary. If you use a slapd.conf, this is irrelevant for you at present.

Also, I am writing a health check for openldap

For what monitoring system ?

Here is the one I use for performance and replication monitoring with Hobbit (but I also use it stand-alone).

http://staff.telkomsa.net/~bgmilne/bb-openldap.pl

and I am only able to find effective monitoring stats via the cn=Monitor but that is not always configured in every slapd instance.

The best solution here is to configure it.

Is there another way of going about this?

AFAIK, no.

Regards, Buchan