From 1ebe5a93ff208925b3e94559ef4dadf6df428385 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gavin Henry Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:17:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Wee note about Wireskark and LDAP. --- doc/guide/admin/troubleshooting.sdf | 11 +++++++++++ doc/guide/preamble.sdf | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/guide/admin/troubleshooting.sdf b/doc/guide/admin/troubleshooting.sdf index f1992fa492..05eced6335 100644 --- a/doc/guide/admin/troubleshooting.sdf +++ b/doc/guide/admin/troubleshooting.sdf @@ -73,11 +73,22 @@ H2: How to present your problem H2: Debugging {{slapd}}(8) +After reading through the above sections and before e-mailing the OpenLDAP lists, you +might want to try out some of the following to track down the cause of your problems: + * Loglevel 256 is generally a good first loglevel to try for getting information useful to list members on issues * Running {{slapd -d -1}} can often track down fairly simple issues, such as missing schemas and incorrect file permissions for the {{slapd}} user to things like certs +For those of you so inclined, a great LDAP Protocol Dissector is available in {[PRD:Wireshark}} +and is discussed at: + +{{URL:http://wiki.wireshark.org/LDAP}} + +It's very interesting to look inside the LDAP Protocol, but please do not try to use this tool +in debugging normal problems. + H2: Commercial Support The firms listed at {{URL:http://www.openldap.org/support/}} offer technical support services catering to OpenLDAP community. diff --git a/doc/guide/preamble.sdf b/doc/guide/preamble.sdf index 3a538be686..cecc169252 100644 --- a/doc/guide/preamble.sdf +++ b/doc/guide/preamble.sdf @@ -142,9 +142,10 @@ OpenLDAP ITS|http://www.openldap.org/its/ OpenLDAP Software|http://www.openldap.org/software/ OpenSSL|http://www.openssl.org/ Perl|http://www.perl.org/ -TCL|http://www.tcl.tk/ SDF|http://search.cpan.org/src/IANC/sdf-2.001/doc/catalog.html +TCL|http://www.tcl.tk/ UMLDAP|http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/ldap.html +Wireshark|http://www.wireshark.org/ !endblock # Internet and X.500 terms -- 2.39.5