[Fedora-directory-users] FDS, SNMP & Cacti...

[David Boreham]

Howard Chu wrote:

>
> I really wish Net::LDAP would just go away and die. People should be 
> using Mozilla::LDAP (or Net::LDAPapi), particularly when they're doing 
> timing measurements. I guess as a monitoring device to say "is it 
> alive" it's not too crucial, but you have to realize that when it says 
> it measures the response time of the LDAP server, 99% of the measured 
> time is actually perl execution, and only 1% is actual network+LDAP 
> time. (That's not an exaggeration; there is a clear 100:1 difference 
> in execution time between Net::LDAP and Mozilla::LDAP / Net::LDAPapi.)

Still, a pure Perl solution is nice from an integration perspective.
Is either Mozilla::LDAP or Net::LDAPapi shipped with a popular
Linux distribution today ?

In an application like Cacti, the service response time measurement is
really aimed at detecting an overloaded service (hence requests queue
and response time becomes very high). So I'm not sure a few ms matters
one way or the other.

btw I'd vote for more effort put in to making the Python LDAP support
better and more widely distributed -- Perl itself is evil (IMHO of course).