README.md

OpenLDAP monitoring with Netdata

Provides statistics information from openldap (slapd) server. Statistics are taken from LDAP monitoring interface. Manual page, slapd-monitor(5) is available.

Requirement:

• Follow instructions from https://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/monitoringslapd.html to activate monitoring interface.
• Install python ldap module pip install ldap or yum install python-ldap
• Modify openldap.conf with your credentials

Module gives information with following charts:

1. connections

   • total connections number

2. Bytes

   • sent

3. operations

   • completed
   • initiated

4. referrals

   • sent

5. entries

   • sent

6. ldap operations

   • bind
   • search
   • unbind
   • add
   • delete
   • modify
   • compare

7. waiters

   • read
   • write

Configuration

Edit the python.d/openldap.conf configuration file using edit-config from the Netdata config directory, which is typically at /etc/netdata.

cd /etc/netdata   # Replace this path with your Netdata config directory, if different
sudo ./edit-config python.d/openldap.conf

Sample:

openldap:
  name     : 'local'
  username : "cn=monitor,dc=superb,dc=eu"
  password : "testpass"
  server   : 'localhost'
  port     : 389

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