[Fedora-directory-users] Re: Total number of LDAP entries

Rich Megginson rmeggins at redhat.com
Tue Mar 10 17:46:09 UTC 2009


Branimir wrote:
> Rich Megginson wrote:
>> Branimir wrote:
>>> David Boreham wrote:
>>>> Branimir wrote:
>>>>> so there is no way to find the number of total LDAP entries stored 
>>>>> in FDC?
>>>> Obviously that's a ridiculous statement. You could at the very 
>>>> least perform a search that
>>>> returns all entries and count them !
>>>>
>>>> The server however does not maintain a running count itself. So one 
>>>> way or another you will
>>>> need to count the entries.
>>>>
>>>> Unless...you configure a VLV index covering the target entries 
>>>> (e.g. all entries). This will
>>>> as a side-effect maintain the count, which can be retrieved with 
>>>> the appropriate VLV search.
>>>
>>> Hi David and Rocio,
>>>
>>> David:
>>> well, I know that I can perform search and count them. I hoped that 
>>> there is some shell command implemented in FDS that could provide 
>>> this number. I administer commercial LDAP solution
>> Which LDAP solution?
>>> that provides such command.
>> What is the command and how does it work?
>
> Hi Rich,
>
> please don't be offendedbut I work in CA environment and I cannot 
> provide that information.
Why?  Is this the CA E-Trust Directory Server?  If so, isn't the 
information on it publicly available?  If so, why would you not be able 
to provide that information.
> What I can say that this command counts number of entries on both 
> master and replica servers.
How does it work?  Does it use LDAP?  Does it invoke some sort of remote 
shell?
>
> Also thank you for the links.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Branimir
>
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