SLAPD-MONITOR(5) OpenLDAP 2.2.23 (2005/01/24) SLAPD-MONITOR(5)
NAME
slapd-monitor - Monitor backend to slapd
SYNOPSIS
/etc/openldap/slapd.conf
DESCRIPTION
The monitor backend to slapd(8) is not an actual database;
if enabled, it is automatically generated and dynamically
maintained by slapd with information about the running
status of the daemon.
CONFIGURATION
These slapd.conf options apply to the monitor backend
database. That is, they must follow a "database monitor"
line and come before any subsequent "backend" or "database"
lines. As opposed to most databases, the monitor database
can be instantiated only once, i.e. only one occurrence of
"database monitor" can occur in the slapd.conf(5) file.
Moreover, the suffix of the database cannot be explicitly
set by means of the suffix directive; on the contrary, the
suffix is automatically set to "cn=Monitor".
The monitor database honors the rootdn and the rootpw
directives, and the usual ACL directives, e.g. the access
directive.
The following directives can be used:
l <locality>
The <locality> string is added to the "cn=Monitor"
entry as value of the l attribute (Note: this may be
subjected to changes).
Other database options are described in the slapd.conf(5)
manual page.
USAGE
The usage is:
1) enable the monitor backend at configure:
configure --enable-monitor
2) activate the monitor database in the
slapd.conf(5) file:
database monitor
3) add ACLs as detailed in
slapd.access(5) to control access to the database,
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e.g.:
access to dn.subtree="cn=Monitor"
by dn.exact="uid=Admin,dc=my,dc=org" write
by users read
by * none
4) ensure that the core.schema file is loaded.
The monitor backend relies on some standard track
attributeTypes that must be already defined when the
backend is started.
KNOWN LIMITATIONS
The monitor backend does not honor size/time limits in
search operations.
FILES
/etc/openldap/slapd.conf
default slapd configuration file
SEE ALSO
slapd.conf(5), slapd.access(5), slapd(8), ldap(3).
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