Nagios, 2nd Edition

6.9 Monitoring LDAP Directory Services

For monitoring LDAP directory services, the check_ldap plugin is available. It runs a search query that can be specified anonymously or with authentication. It has the following parameters to do this:

-H address / --hostname=address

This is the host name or IP address of the LDAP server.

-b base_dn / --base=base_dn

This is the top element (Base Domain Name) of the LDAP directory, formed for example from the components of the domain name: dc=swobspace,dc=de.

-p port / --port=port

This is the port on which the LDAP server is running. The default is the standard port 389.

-a "ldap-attribute" / --attr="ldap-attribute"

This switch enables a search according to specific attributes. Thus -a "(objectclass=inetOrgPerson)" ...