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Option Description
-w password Specifies the password associated with the user
DN.
-w - Prompts for the password associated with the
user DN.
-x excludeSuffix Specifies the suffixes to be excluded.
Table 7.24. ldif2db.pl Options
7.4.8. logconv.pl (Log Converter)
Analyzes the access logs of a Directory Server to extract usage statistics and count the occurrences
of significant events. It is compatible with log formats from previous releases of Directory Server. For
information on access logs, see Section 5.1, “Access Log Reference”.
NOTE
logconv.pl is in the /usr/bin directory.
The tool will extract the following information from access logs:
• Number of restarts
• Total number of connections
• Total operations requested
• Total results returned
• Results to requests ratio
• Number of searches
• Number of modifications
• Number of adds
• Number of deletes
• Number of modified RDNs
• Persistent searches
• Internal operations (with verbose logs)
• Entry operations (with verbose logs)
• Extended operations
• Abandoned requests
• Smart referrals received (verbose logs)
• VLV (virtual list view) operations
• VLV unindexed searches
• Server-side sorting operations
• SSL connections
• Performance lowering operations:
• Entire database searches
• Unindexed searches (details optional)
• FDs (file descriptors) taken
• FDs returned
• Highest FD taken
• Disruptions:
• Broken pipes
• Connections reset by peer
• Unavailable resources (and detail)
• Total binds and types of binds
• Most frequent occurrence lists (optional)
• Error and return codes
• Failed logins
• Connection codes
• Client IP addresses and connection codes
• Bind DNs
• Base DNs for searching
• Search filters
• Etimes (elapsed operation time)
• Longest etimes
• Nentries (number of entries in result)
• Largest Nentries
• Extended operations
• Most requested attributes
• Recommendations (optional)
Table 7.25. Information Extracted from Access Logs
The logconv.pl tool displays two types of statistics useful for monitoring and optimizing directory
usage:
• Simple counts of events such as the total number of binds and the total number of searches provide
overall usage information. This is the basic information that the tool will always print.
