Directory Server Statistics

This section lists the information collected by the directory server SNMP agent, dsnmpserv, and explains how to display it using the Admin Console.

Information Collected by dsnmpserv

The information collected by the dsnmpserv SNMP agent can be monitored from a management platform such as SunNet Manager^TM or Solstice Enterprise Manager^TM. The following directory service information is monitored:

• Application information

  • Application name

  • Application directory name

  • Application version

  • Application uptime

  • Application status (up or down)

  • Last status change

  • Number of inbound associations

  • Number of outbound associations

  • Accumulated inbound associations

  • Accumulated outbound associations

  • Last inbound activity

  • Last outbound activity

  • Rejected inbound association

  • Failed inbound association

• Association information

  • The distinguished name of the remote application

  • The protocol being used to communicate

  • The type of the remote application, and whether it is an initiator or responder

  • The current duration of the association

• Directory server operations

  • Anonymous bind

  • Unauthenticated bind

  • Simple authentication bind

  • Strong authentication bind

  • Bind security errors

  • Inbound operations

  • Read operations

  • Compare operations

  • Add Entry operations

  • Delete Entry operations

  • Modify Entry operations

  • List operations

  • Search operations

  • One-level search operations

  • Whole tree search operations

  • Referrals

  • Chaining

  • Security errors

  • DSA errors

• Directory entry information

  • Master entries

  • Copy entries

  • Cached entries

  • Cache Hits

  • Slave Hits

• Interactions with other directory servers

  • Distinguished name of remote directory server

  • Time of creation of remote directory server

  • Time of last attempt to contact the remote directory server

  • Time of last successful interaction with the remote directory server

  • Number of failures since last successful contact

  • Total number of failures to contact the remote directory server

  • Total number of successful interactions with the remote directory server

Information Collected by dsservd

You can view statistics collected by the directory server, dsservd, in five categories:

• Global

• Detailed

• Operations

• Associations

• Interactions

  The statistics available are the same information that is collected by the dsnmpserv SNMP agent. See "Monitoring Directory Services with SNMP" for details of the information collected.

To Monitor Directory Server Statistics

1. In the Admin Console main window, go to the LDAP section under Services

2. Click the Show Statistics button.

The LDAP Statistics window is displayed. It presents a snapshot of the statistics available for the directory server.

1. Click the tab for the category that you want to view.

2. Click the Update button to get the latest statistics.

   To update the statistics at regular intervals:

   1. Set the Refresh Interval field

   2. Click Start Auto Update

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      Note -

      The Start Auto Update and Stop Auto Update controls apply to viewing the statistics, not to collecting the data. They only apply while the window is displayed. If you close the window, the refresh interval is reset to the default and automatic updating of the statistics view stops.

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