Re: Q: UNKNOWN attributeDescription "AUDITCONTEXT" inserted.

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@symas.com>]

--On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 11:02 AM +0200 Ulrich Windl 
<Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> After systemd tearing down one of our LDAP servers I noticed the
> following message when the server was restarted: slapd[10525]: UNKNOWN
> attributeDescription "AUDITCONTEXT" inserted.
>
> The next line logged was:
> slapd[10525]: olcServerID: value #1: SID=0x002 (listener=ldap://...:389)
>
> (the server is that of SLES12 SP4, 2.4.41 from opensuse-buildservice)
>
> The server is one of three MM servers that all have the same
> configuration and the same version.
>
> The schema knows in olcAttributeTypes (olcSchemaConfig):
> ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.4203.666.11.5.1.30 NAME 'auditContext' DESC 'DN of
> auditContainer' SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.12 SINGLE-VALUE
> NO-USER-MODIFICATION USAGE dSAOperation )
>
> What I'l like to know: Is there any thing I could fix in the
> configuration to make the message go away, or is it some software issue
> in slapd?

I've seen this when an attribute is introduced into the cn=config database 
that's not part of the built-in slapd schema.  It can be harmless in that 
case.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Product Architect
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