OpenLDAP Quick Tips: OpenLDAP Logfile analysis



Here's the 14th tip in the "OpenLDAP Quick Tips" series and today it comes from "Pablo Chamorro":
"You want to analyse your OpenLDAP logfile":
There are various ways to do this yourself by hand, but the have community already done the work for you and written the:
OpenLDAP Logfile analysis utility:
ldap[?]-stats.pl is a Perl program that can be used to analyze and report on OpenLDAP logfiles. The available reports include: operations (e.g., Connect, Bind, Unbind) performed per host, unindexed searches, attributes requested, search filters used, total operations per server, and operation breakdowns by day, hour and month.
A short sample output would look like:
CODE:
[root@suretec ~]# ./ldap[?]-stats.pl /var/log/openldap.log
Report Generated on Mon Dec 1 14:57:43 2008
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Processed "/var/log/openldap.log": Apr 5 00:01:50 - Dec 1 08:39:33
Operation totals
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Total operations : 19258
Total connections : 7061
Total authentication failures : 2358
Total binds : 4403
Total unbinds : 6661
Total searches : 7849
Total compares : 0
Total modifications : 215
Total modrdns : 0
Total additions : 128
Total deletions : 2
Unindexed attribute requests : 0
Operations per connection : 2.73
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A longer sample is available.
Thanks,
Gavin.
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bronius on :
If there is a tool available, great, if not, it would be a good tip to demonstrate some easy log-parsing.
Gavin Henry on :