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Sun OpenDS Standard Edition 2.2 Administration Guide

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Before You Start

Starting and Stopping Your Server Instance

Configuring the Server Instance

Configuring the Proxy Components

Configuring Security Between Clients and Servers

Configuring Security Between the Proxy and the Data Source

Configuring Servers With the Control Panel

Managing Directory Data

Replicating Directory Data

Controlling Access To Data

Managing Users and Groups

Monitoring Sun OpenDS Standard Edition

Configuring Monitor Providers

To View Monitor Providers

To Disable a Monitor Provider

To Create a Monitor Provider

Configuring Logs With dsconfig

Log Configuration Overview

Configuring Log Publishers

To Create a Log Publisher

Logging Internal Operations

Configuring Log Retention Policies

To Create a Log Retention Policy

To Modify a Log Retention Policy

Configuring Log Rotation Policies

To Create a Log Rotation Policy

Configuring Debug Targets

To Create a Debug Target

To Modify a Debug Target

Logging Access Control Information

Differences Between Logging in Sun OpenDS Standard Edition and Sun Java System Directory Server

Configuring Alerts and Account Status Notification Handlers

Managing Alert Handlers

To View All Configured Alert Handlers

To Enable an Alert Handler

To Create a New Alert Handler

To Delete an Alert Handler

To Disable an Alert Type

Managing Account Status Notification Handlers

To View the Configured Account Status Notification Handlers

To Enable Account Status Notification Handlers

To Create a New Account Status Notification Handler

To Delete an Account Status Notification Handler

Monitoring the Server With LDAP

Viewing Monitoring Information Using the cn=monitor Entry

To View the Available Monitoring Information

To Monitor General-Purpose Server Information

To Monitor System Information

To Monitor Version Information

To Monitor the User Root Back End

To Monitor the Backup Back End

To Monitor the Tasks Back End

To Monitor the monitor Back End

To Monitor the Schema Back End

To Monitor the adminRoot Back End

To Monitor the ads-truststore Back End

To Monitor Client Connections

To Monitor the LDAP Connection Handler

To Monitor LDAP Connection Handler Statistics

To Monitor Connections on the LDAP Connection Handler

To Monitor the Administration Connector

To Monitor Administration Connector Statistics

To Monitor Connections on the Administration Connector

To Monitor the LDIF Connection Handler

To Monitor the Work Queue

To Monitor JVM Stack Trace Information

To Monitor the JVM Memory Usage

To Monitor the userRoot Database Environment

To Monitor the Entry Cache

To Monitor Network Groups

To Monitor Distributions

To Monitor Load Balancing

To Monitor Remote LDAP Servers

To Monitor a Global Index

To Monitor a Global Index Catalog

Monitoring Using manage-tasks Command

Accessing Logs

To View the Access Logs

To View the Audit Logs

To View the Debug Logs

To View the Error Logs

To View the Replication Repair Logs

To View the server.out Logs

To View the vdp-setup Logs

General Purpose Enterprise Monitoring Solutions

Monitoring the Server With JConsole

To Configure JMX on a Server Instance

Starting JConsole

Accessing a Server Instance From JConsole

Viewing Monitoring Information With JConsole

Monitoring the Server With SNMP

Configuring SNMP in the Server

To Configure SNMP in the Server

To View the SNMP Connection Handler Properties

To Access SNMP on a Server Instance

SNMP Security Configuration

Monitoring a Replicated Topology

Monitoring Replication Status With dsreplication

Advanced Replication Monitoring

Monitoring the Directory Server With the Control Panel

To View Monitoring Information With the Control Panel

Monitoring the Proxy Server With the Control Panel

To View Proxy Configuration Information

To View Proxy Monitoring Information

Setting LDAP Data Source Monitoring Properties in the Proxy

Modifying Monitoring of Remote LDAP Servers

To Modify the Values of Monitoring of Remote LDAP Server

Improving Performance

Advanced Administration

Monitoring the Proxy Server With the Control Panel

You can use the proxy control panel to browse configuration information or view monitoring information for various objects within the proxy. The following objects can be monitored:


Note - Monitoring statistics are accumulated since the last start of the Sun OpenDS Standard Edition proxy.


To View Proxy Configuration Information

  1. Launch the Sun OpenDS Standard Edition proxy control panel using the vdp-control-panel command.
  2. Choose Browse Configuration under Configuration on the left panel of the control panel.

    The Browse Configuration window opens. Figure 17 shows the Browse Configuration window displaying monitoring data for a network group.

  3. Filter configuration displayed by entering the name of the object required in the Filter field at the top of the Browse Configuration window and clicking Apply.
    Figure 17
    Browsing Configuration Information
    Figure shows control panel being used to browse configuration configurations

    After selecting an object such as a network group, you can see the priority of the object. You can click on the Other Attributes text in the right pane to see information about the various attributes of that object, as shown in Figure 18.

    Figure 18
    Browse Additional Configuration Attributes
    Figure shows control panel being used to browse additional configuration attributes

    You can also see the complete tree of the configuration by clicking on the + on the left pane, as show in

    Figure 19
    Browse Configuration Tree and Objects
    Figure shows control panel being used to browse configuration structure and objects

To View Proxy Monitoring Information

  1. Launch the Sun OpenDS Standard Edition proxy control panel using the vdp-control-panel command.
  2. Click Monitoring on the left panel.

    The monitoring tree is the same as the configuration tree but displays monitoring information associated with each configuration entity.

  3. (Optional) To search, enter the name of an object in the Filter field and click Apply.
  4. To view more detailed information you can:
    • Click on General Information

      This contains monitoring data on system information, Java information and work queues. Clicking on System information gives hardware, OS and JVM data. Clicking on Java information includes information on a variety of monitored Java attributes including memory attributes.

      Clicking on Work Queue gives statistics on requests submitted, rejected and contained in the backlog.

    • Click on Browse Monitoring Information.

      This contains monitoring information on network groups, proxy workflow elements, distribution workflow elements and global index catalogs. You can drill down on the left pane by clicking on the desired object.

      • For more information on distribution workflow elements, choose a distribution workflow element in the left pane.

        When this is displayed in the right panel, click on Partitions or Other Attributes for detailed monitoring information.

      • For more information on load balancing workflow elements, choose a load balancing workflow element in the left pane.

        When the details are displayed in the right pane, click on Routes or Other Attributes for detailed monitoring information. Under Routes, you can choose the Show Operations button to select which operations are displayed.

      • For more information on remote LDAP servers, choose proxy workflow elements in the left pane and choose a proxy object.

        Information on the remote LDAP server is displayed in the right pane.

    • Click on Incoming Traffic.

      This contains detailed statistics for incoming traffic per connection handler, per network group, per distribution or per load balancing workflow element.

      1. Click on Incoming Traffic in the left pane to open the Incoming Traffic Monitoring window.
      2. Choose the object for which you want to view monitoring information by clicking on View and selecting the object from the drop-down list.
      3. Select the statistics that are displayed by clicking on View and choosing Show Operations.
    • Click on Outgoing Traffic

      This contains detailed monitoring statistics for outgoing traffic per data source. Click on Outgoing Traffic in the left pane to open the Outgoing Traffic Monitoring window. Select the statistics that are displayed by clicking on View and choosing Show Operations.