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Re: Indexing, use of slapindex



Hi Buchan
thank you very much for your extensive information.

I have done as you said: inserted

 olcDbIndex: uidNumber eq
 olcDbIndex: gidNumber eq

in the cn=config/olcDatabase={2}bdb, ... subtree and from then on, no more "bad equality candidates (uidNumber)" nor "bad equality candidates (gidNumber)" in the slapd-log.

For such changes, we have a Web-Application accessible on http://ldapadmin.ayni.com
if you want to take a look at it.

The idea that i can put slapd into read-only mode stems from "man slapindex" where it says:
<snip>
LIMITATIONS
Your slapd(8) should not be running (at least, not in read-write mode)
       when you do this to ensure consistency of the database.
</snip>

Thanks again.

suomi

On 2011-08-22 14:35, Buchan Milne wrote:
On Friday, 19 August 2011 11:27:03 anax wrote:
Hi listers

Installation here:
openldap-servers-2.4.15-7.fc11.i586

One master server, two backup servers (syncrepl).

All authentication and mailing is managed by ldap.


1. About indexing:

When i check the slapd-log, i see many

<= bdb_equality_candidates: (uidNumber) not indexed

<= bdb_equality_candidates: (gidNumber) not indexed

In the discussion about slapd tuning
http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/tuning.html#Indexes, however, i read
that if each entry in a certain set of ldap-entries has got the
candidate-attribute, it is not worth while to index the attribute,
because slapd needs to read each entry in any case in order to find the
requested one.

This discussion you quote is about 'presence' indexing.

this is the case for uidNumber as well as gidNumber,
because both are compulsory attributes for objectClass posixAccount.

My first question:
is it therefore correct to disregard the above indexing requests of slapd?

It is useful to do 'eq' indexing of uidNumber and gidNumber, you shouldn't
quote stuff out of context (and also try and understand it ...).

2. About slapindex:

When it comes to use slapindex, the docu is not clear about how to do
that. Some places say, that you need to stop slapd entirely,

In the case of using a static (slapd.conf) configuration.

some places
say that it is sufficient to put slapd in read-only mode for the
corresponding background database,

This has never been an option. You could have provided a reference to the
documentation in question.

which in this case would be
/etc/openldap/slapd.d/cn=config/olcDatabase\=\{2\}bdb.ldif
this file contains both the olcReadOnly and the olcDbIndex attributes.

You should never actually consider these as files, they aren't for editing
with an editor, this is only the backend store of the cn=config database. You
should modify these values just like you modify entries in other databases -
over the LDAP protocol.


So i could just add the following two lines in the above file:
olcDbIndex: uidNumber eq
olcDbIndex: gidNumber eq
set the olcReadOnly attribute to TRUE, and restart slapd, and everything
would be done automatically?

No, in back-config/cn=config configuration, it is sufficient to add the
olcDBIndex values with e.g. ldapmodify.

Why is it sufficient?  If you do it over the wire, slapd can see what has
changed, and can start creating a new index for you.

Or would i need to invoke slapindex additionally with the following command
slapindex -c

This is only applicable/necessary if using slapd.conf.

Would the new indexes be propagated to the backup servers by syncrepl
automatically?

No.

If not, what would i have to change on the backup servers?

You should apply the applicable configuration change.

Regards,
Buchan