Hi Buchan,

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.

ok, so setting it up in slapd.conf does the same thing.

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Also, I am writing a health check for openldap

For what monitoring system ?

Hyperic HQ

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

thanks, I will definitely check it out.

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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.

Yeah, that is unfortunate since not all slapd instances will have this :@(

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Is there another way of going about this?

AFAIK, no.

thanks. Scott

Regards, Buchan

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