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

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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .TH SLAPD-META 5 "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
-.\" Copyright 1998-2012 The OpenLDAP Foundation, All Rights Reserved.
+.\" Copyright 1998-2013 The OpenLDAP Foundation, All Rights Reserved.
 .\" Copying restrictions apply.  See the COPYRIGHT file.
 .\" Copyright 2001, Pierangelo Masarati, All rights reserved. <ando@sys-net.it>
 .\" $OpenLDAP$
@@ -537,6 +537,25 @@ 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.