Re: Info on cn=Monitor items

[Gavin Henry <ghenry@OpenLDAP.org>]

Maykel Moya wrote:
> Is there any available documentation explaining the meanings (what is
> monitored) of every item under cn=Monitor.

See the Draft Admin Guide which is a work in progress:

http://www.openldap.org/devel/admin/monitoringslapd.html

> In particular, I'm not sure about the exact meaning of:
> * cn=Log,cn=Monitor
> * cn=Bytes,cn=Statistics,cn=Monitor
>   (sent Bytes since started?)
> * cn=PDU,cn=Statistics,cn=Monitor
>   (don't know what PDU means)
> * cn=Entries,cn=Statistics,cn=Monitor
>   (in my system it shows very high, maybe because of my cn=accesslog and
>    cn=config contexts. It's planned to have Entries per context basis?)
> * cn=Backload,cn=Threads,cn=Monitor
> * cn=Runqueue,cn=Threads,cn=Monitor
>   (monitoredInfo always have value (), what are possible values for 
>    this attribute)
> * cn=Read,cn=Waiters,cn=Monitor
>   (in my system it shows 15, did it mean that there was 15 threads 
>    waiting to query the DIT? if so, it's strange for me give that this 
>    system is only for testing with 2 o 3 clients and such a number of 
>    read waiters are very improbable)
>
> Had the OL developers considered adding a description attribute to
> *,cn=Monitor entries?

Not sure if we have.

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Gavin Henry.
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