CN=Monitor LDAP Monitoring

What is CN=Monitor?

Directory Server Monitoring application. The idea is to monitor entire small to large scaled deployed directory server environments.

Main Features

Monitoring cluster/environment availability

Verify that all servers within your environment are responding. Verify load balancing and scalability.

Monitoring server availability

Keep track of uptime, certificates, cache sizes, replication status and schema.

Monitoring performance counters

Live monitoring to view current load or collect historical events to be proactive and view trends.
15 different types of performance counters supported such as Returned Entries, Returned KiloBytes, Connections and Response Time

Advance Query

Verify data consistency by querying several server at once or export CSV lists based on a list of attribute values.

What is the goal for this project?

The goal is to provide a general monitoring tool for Directory Servers with focus on iPlanet based (Red Hat / Fedora / Sun), Open LDAP and eDirectory servers.
Other servers will be recognized if possible.

Current status?

Monitoring and viewing server status can be gathered from:

Open LDAP
RedHat and Fedora/389 Directory Server
Novell eDirectory Server
General Monitoring such as response time, server availability (All)

More Features:

View Schema (Most vendors)
Verify Load Balancing, DNS and Server level (RedHat / Fedora / Sun Only)
Verify Replication, (RedHat / Fedora / Sun Only)
Verify Cache Size, (RedHat / Fedora / Sun Only)
Mail Report of weekly load
Summary Graph of monitoring

Servers recognized:

Open LDAP, RedHat / Fedora / 389 Directory Server, Sun, Novell / Suse eDirectory, IBM Tivoli Directory Server, Netscape iPlanet, Microsoft Active Directory and Oracle Internet Directory.

Donations

If you appreciate CN=Monitor. Feel free to donate any amount to support future development of this software and show your appreciation.

How to contribute to this project:
All feedback is appreciated by sending a mail or using the project forum.
If you want to contribute code or directory server knowledge contact me by mail.

Give it a try and tell me what you think!