[Xymon] LDAP monitoring nonstandard port

[Ryan Davis]

Still looking for an answer to get both ldaps monitored.

On Friday, December 6, 2013, Ryan Davis wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion on the protocols.  Tested by changing the port
> and got it working.  So now I'm trying to figure out my configure and
> Makefile and the configure file finds the OpenLDAP library:
>
> Checking for LDAP ...
> Compiling with LDAP works OK
> LBER library not needed
> Linking with LDAP works OK
>
> Xymonnet report below.
> xymonnet version 4.3.12
> SSL library : OpenSSL 1.0.0 29 Mar 2010
> LDAP library: OpenLDAP 20423
>
> So what am I missing here?  This is also checking my external LDAP that
> does run on 389.
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:57 AM, John Thurston <john.thurston at alaska.gov<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'john.thurston at alaska.gov');>
> > wrote:
>
>> >> 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.
>>
>> --
>>    Do things because you should, not just because you can.
>>
>> John Thurston    907-465-8591
>> John.Thurston at alaska.gov <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> 'John.Thurston at alaska.gov');>
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>> State of Alaska
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