Hello all,
I have a Solaris 10 system that queries a clients openldap server to deliver a certain service and the client is complaining that my system sometimes denies services to clients. Well my system only denies service to clients if the openldap system from the customer fails to answer.
In this sense I tried to write a script to monitor the openldap server and its responsiveness but ldapsearch client in Solaris 10 doesn't work as I expected :(
For example, all ok:
bash# ldapsearch -v -b '' -s base -h 192.168.1.102:7323 'objectclass=top' namingContexts ldapsearch: started Fri Jun 13 01:51:53 2008
ldap_init( 192.168.1.102:7323, 389 ) filter pattern: objectclass=top returning: namingContexts filter is: (objectclass=top) version: 1 dn: namingContexts: nodeName=XXXXX 1 matches
Now imagine that the ldap server goes down:
bash# ldapsearch -v -b '' -s base -h 192.168.1.102:7323 'objectclass=top' namingContexts ldapsearch: started Fri Jun 13 02:11:04 2008
ldap_init( 192.168.1.102:7323, 389 ) filter pattern: objectclass=top returning: namingContexts filter is: (objectclass=top) ldap_search: Can't connect to the LDAP server - Connection refused
Now imagine that the machine hosting LDAP goes down or a problem somewhere in the network occurs or a firewall blocks traffic (timeout):
bash# ldapsearch -v -b '' -s base -h 192.168.1.102:7323 'objectclass=top' namingContexts ldapsearch: started Fri Jun 13 02:11:04 2008
ldap_init( 192.168.1.102:7323, 389 ) filter pattern: objectclass=top returning: namingContexts filter is: (objectclass=top)
And it just stays here forever. The -l flag only works after the search is initiated server side. There isn't a switch for a connection timeout limit. With this behaviour I can't test this as I imagined.
Maybe some of you already have a monitoring script?
Thanks in advance for any tip!
PS: The script I wrote initially:
############################################################## #!/bin/bash LDAP_HOST=127.0.0.1:10000 POOLING_INTERVAL=5 LOGFILE=/var/log/ldap_watchdog.log
#
echo "Watchdog started at `date`" >> $LOGFILE
while `/bin/true`; do ldapsearch -v -b '' -s base -h $LDAP_HOST 'objectclass=top' namingContexts if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "`date`: Could not establish connection to LDAP server"
$LOGFILE
fi sleep $POOLING_INTERVAL done
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Alexandre Vieira - nullpt@gmail.com