Howard Chu wrote:

Doug OLeary wrote:

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I'm looking to store some host information in an ldap directory. Example attributes are:

• Hostname
• IP
• Netmask
• Default gateway
• Remote console info
• H/W
• Serial number
• Distribution List addresses to contact if the system has issues.

Some of those are obvious: host, iphostnumber, ipnetmasknumber and serialnumber; the others somewhat less so.

Any suggestions on how I could approach getting this information in my directory?

Sounds like you should define your own attributes and objectclass. I'd consider making it a subjclass of ipHost.

Depending on how your hosts' network setup is that is much harder than it looks at first. I was experimenting with object classes for hosts with several network adapters in different VLANs with the latter being child entries of hosts. Work on that is currently stalled.

I think you should first try to define which LDAP applications are supposed to make use of the data. How about also taking a closer look at DHCP and DNS servers making use of a LDAP backend and their schema files first? IMHO those are not sufficient, but can give you some inspiration on what's needed.

(Shameless plug: web2ldap's schema browser is the most versatile tool for digging into a subschema subentry.)

Ciao, Michael.