ITS#7513 added TCP keepalive support to back-meta

[openldap] / doc / man / man5 / slapd-meta.5

diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd-meta.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd-meta.5
index 4f3c1c6f634f53a646421aa36885c247536b4a60..30d6b63d60f7cf948032b4b7117dc4f333bf6e8e 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd-meta.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd-meta.5
@@ -546,6 +546,25 @@ minutes and seconds.
 If set before any target specification, it affects all targets, unless
 overridden by any per-target directive.
 
+.TP
+.B keepalive  <idle>:<probes>:<interval>
+The
+.B keepalive
+parameter sets the values of \fIidle\fP, \fIprobes\fP, and \fIinterval\fP
+used to check whether a socket is alive;
+.I idle
+is the number of seconds a connection needs to remain idle before TCP
+starts sending keepalive probes;
+.I probes
+is the maximum number of keepalive probes TCP should send before dropping
+the connection;
+.I interval
+is interval in seconds between individual keepalive probes.
+Only some systems support the customization of these values;
+the
+.B keepalive
+parameter is ignored otherwise, and system-wide settings are used.
+
 .TP
 .B map "{attribute|objectclass} [<local name>|*] {<foreign name>|*}"
 This maps object classes and attributes as in the LDAP backend.