Using the Monitoring Framework with Directory Server

See Instrumentation of Directory Server for the list of objects and attributes you can monitor.

To Enable Monitoring in Directory Server

1. Create a temporary password file:

   echo –n password > /tmp/pwd

2. Enable the Monitoring Plugin with the following command:

   DirServ-base/ds6/bin/dscfg enable-plugin -e -p 389 -w /tmp/pwd "Monitoring Plugin"

3. Restart Directory Server:

   cd DirServ-base/ds6/bin ./dsadm restart /var/DirServ-base/DSinstance/