Overview#

Useful Commands for Edirectory on Linux/Solaris

Is EDirectory Running?#

To show a few ports including 524, (LDAP)389, (LDAPS)636 and the ports for DHOST as listening. (using netstat)

One of my servers shows like command-line:

# netstat -anp | grep LISTEN | grep ndsd
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:389             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      16718/ndsd
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8389          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      16718/ndsd
tcp        0      0 192.168.1.4:8389        0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      16718/ndsd
tcp        0      0 192.168.1.4:524         0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      16718/ndsd
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:524           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      16718/ndsd
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:636             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      16718/ndsd
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8636          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      16718/ndsd
tcp        0      0 192.168.1.4:8636        0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      16718/ndsd

I have made a habit of putting DHOST on (http)8389 and (https)8636 so I might remember where it is running.

NDSLogin#

You can try an ndslogin from the server with the following:

# ndslogin -t willeketree -h 192.168.1.4 jim.butler.people.willeke.com
Password:
eDirectory Login: logged in as .CN=jim.OU=butler.OU=people.dc=willeke.dc=com.WILLEKETREE.

NDSD Threads and Processes#

Processes#

To monitor ndsd, use the following command-line:

# ps -eaf |grep ndsd

Typical output would be:

root      5067     1  0 00:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/ndsd
root      5070  5067  0 00:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/ndsd
root      5071  5070  0 00:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/ndsd
root      5072  5070  0 00:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/ndsd
root      5074  5070  0 00:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/ndsd
root      5075  5070  0 00:54 ?        00:00:01 /usr/sbin/ndsd

These threads are Light Weight Processes (LWPs), which reduces switching overhead. You will see them as multiple ndsd's running on same machine. You can use pstree to see them as a structure view.

For example on 8.7.x,

pstree 'cat /var/nds/ndsd.pid'

For 8.8#

Tested to work with eDirectory 8.8 on SuSE Enterprise Server 10/11 and should work fine with eDirectory 8.7.x also.

pstree -G `cat /var/opt/novell/eDirectory/data/ndsd.pid`

Other useful Edirectory Usefull Linux Commands:#

• NDSTRACE Examples
• NDSTrace Command - Some details on the usage of NDSTrace Command
• Stop and Start Imanager or Apache
• NDSD (eDirectory) File locations
• Files In Dib Directory
• Edirectory Ports
• ndscheck
• Which LDAPSEARCH

Category#

eDirectory

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Installing And Configuring Edirectory
• Unix Linux CommandLine Tricks