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Re: Open LDAP and SNMP

Hallo everybody,

I've been waiting for response on my question about SNMP thing in Open LDAP. I think Ive been waiting enough and regardless to amount of feedback I think that possibility to administrate open ldap instance over snmp (like for example changing log level or whatsoever without restarting slapd) is worth to have. I am ready to contribute code which will allow at least to look at monitor backend over SNMP using net-snmp project and agentx protocol as a "proof of concept". However I am not really sure if I am welcome to do this, thus I am asking people around here if the want it.

Best regards, vadim tarassov.

Andrew Findlay wrote:

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:41:46PM +0200, Tarassov Vadim wrote:



Yes, I know that it is not supported, therfore I posted my first email trying to figure out if community will find such support useful, and if yes - than in which exactly form.



The ability to monitor usage stats via SNMP would be handy. A lot of
the mechanism could be shared with back-monitor, giving access to
things like cumulative numbers of queries, current number of
connections etc.

I think the 'right' way to do this would be for SLAPD to register itself
with the master SNMP daemon using AGENTX. A less intrusive
implementation might use an SNMP module that queries back-monitor
using LDAP and translates the results. This could be prototyped quite
easily using the new net-snmp perl-agent module (though that module is
still at a pre-alpha stage so I would not want to run it in production
yet).

Andrew