In order to facilitate remote administration and auditing of LDAP server operation, it is desirable to provide the server's operational logs themselves as a searchable LDAP directory. These logs may also be used as a persistent Changelog to support various replication mechanisms.
A Schema for Logging the LDAP Protocol document defines a schema that may be used to represent all of the requests that have been processed by an LDAP server.
A Schema for Logging the LDAP Protocol may be used by various applications for auditing, flight recorder, replication, and other purposes.