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

[Branimir]

Rich Megginson wrote:
> 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.

Sorry for misunderstanding. CA = Certificate Authority.

>> 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?

It doesn't invoke remote shell and it doesn't use LDAP. That's all I can 
  say.

Branimir