Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently in the process of migrating LDAP data from a really outdated > system to something a bit fresher. So, I started with the OpenLDAP as > provided by > Debian, and learned that a good part of the system management knowledge I had > is outdated. So, I stared reading TFM. > > ... and stumbled over the section where I wanted to learn how to set up > monitoring with the cn=config configuration scheme. > > > Naturally, that was exactly the incentive I needed to actually start giving > back something to the community. So, I ended up playing around a bit and > googling a > bit and scratching my head a lot, taking notes, and came up with something > you might want to add into the manual -- see below. > > Unfortunately, the whole thing did not exactly work out as I intended, > because the crucial step insists on failing. Namely, trying to create a > monitor database > fails, indicating there already is one in existence. However, I can't find > any such beast: > > root@host:~/ldap# ldapsearch -Q -LLL -H ldapi:/// -Y EXTERNAL -b 'cn=config' > '(|(olcDatabase=monitor)(objectClass=olcMonitorConfig))' > root@host:~/ldap#
Did you try searching to see if cn=monitor is actually there? -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
