How to check whether OpenLDAP server is provider or consumer ?

[pramod kulkarni <pammu.kulkarni@gmail.com>]

I am trying to notify a system to check if the openLDAP server is provider or consumer.I can do this by getting a referral error on the consumer side whenever I try to write something on the server , but is their any other way to check if OpenLDAP is provider or consumer without writing to it ? .