Re: ldapcompare vs ldapsearch

[Dieter Klünter <dieter@dkluenter.de>]

Am Wed, 17 May 2017 18:32:29 +0800
schrieb Roger Szabo <roger.szabo@web.de>:

> Hi,
> 
> The goal is to perform frequent periodic calls to check the health of
> OpenLDAP using anonymous bind.
> 
> Someone at
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16077473/ldap-bind-vs-search
> suggested that a ldapcompare would perform better than a ldapsearch
> because "there is only a single response per entry (a compare result)
> rather than two (a search result entry and a search result done)".
> 
> This explanation makes sense but it would be really great to hear the
> opinion of an expert on this, thank you very much :)

Indeed, a compare operation requires less time and server load than a
search operation. In order to reduce server load you may search the
monitor backend base object.

-Dieter

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