slapd-monitor - Monitor backend to slapd

/etc/ldap/slapd.conf

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.

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.

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, 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.

The monitor backend does not honor size/time limits in search operations.

/etc/ldap/slapd.conf

default slapd configuration file

slapd.conf(5), slapd.access(5), slapd(8), ldap(3).