Re: (ITS#5051) Translucent overlay and back-monitor

[ghenry@suretecsystems.com]

<quote who="Pierangelo Masarati">
> Gavin Henry wrote:
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>> OK, thanks. Do you have any reference for custom monitoring examples?
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> Not sure what you mean.  By "custom monitoring" I mean that pieces of
> code may register callbacks in back-monitor to enrich the monitor
> entries with dynamically generated data.  Right now, the only code that
> exploits this functionality is back-bdb/back-hdb, but it's something we
> use intensively for custom modules we develop (the monitor database can
> be proficiently used as an interface for non-persistent interaction with
> the DSA).

Ah, right. Sorry, I misunderstood custom as something done via
configuration in the front end, not via callbacks.

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> With reference to code, see servers/slapd/back-bdb/monitor.c (the API is
> implemented in servers/slapd-back-monitor/init.c).

Will do, sounds very useful indeed.

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> What back-bdb/hdb publishes by means of this API is not documented,
> AFAIK; it might be worth mentioning somewhere in the docs, as this
> monitoring could be quite useful for tuning.  Nothing that cannot be
> accessed thru db_stat, the advantage is access via LDAP protocol.

Exactly, sounds very useful and one that I can investigate and document in
the Monitoring section, with implementation examples (not code) in the
Tuning and Maintenance sections of our guide.

>
> A recent addition was the capability to monitor what unindexed
> attributes were used in searches.

Yeah, I commented on that previously. Nice.

Gavin.

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