[Xymon] LDAP monitoring nonstandard port

[John Thurston]

 >> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013, at 10:56, Ryan Davis wrote:
>>> I am running ApacheDS as my internal LDAP on a non standard port.
>>> I seem to not be able to monitor that port via Xymon. A tcpdump
>>> of the destination server shows Xymon still attempting to monitor
>>> port 389 even though I have told my hosts.cfg file to use the
>>> port it is listening on.

On 12/6/2013 5:10 AM, Ryan Davis wrote:
> Yes here is the complete line from my hosts.cfg
>
> 192.168.1.5   ldapserver                     #
>   ldaplogin="uid=someid,ou=someou:somepass"
> ldap://ldapserver:1389/dc=home,dc=lan??sub?(sn=actualuser)

I suspect that you are not actually performing the extended ldap test, 
but are performing the basic test on the port defined in protocols.cfg. 
One way to confirm this would be to change the definition in procols.cfg 
and see if the test against 'ldapserver' is then performed on the new port.

The man page for hosts.cfg contains the following line:
>>> This type of LDAP test requires that xymonnet(1) was built with support for LDAP, e.g. via the OpenLDAP library.

If your xymon was not built with OpenLDAP libraries, you will have only 
the basic ldap test available.

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