[Fedora-directory-users] LDAP subagent questions

[Kevin M. Myer]

Hello,

I'm working through some of the documentation for the ldap-agent at 
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/ag/7.1/snmp.html 
(although with Fedora Directory Server).  I have a simple 
ldap-agent.conf file in /opt/fedora-ds/slapd-instance/config.  The 
documentation states that a config item of "server" should be specified 
that points to the log directory of the Directory Server instance to be 
monitored.  I found that it balked if I did that:

ldap-agent: Error opening server config file: 
/opt/fedora-ds/slapd-instance/logs/config/dse.ldif

so I changed the server value to be just /opt/fedora-ds/slapd-instance.

Error message goes away but now when I try to start ldap-agent, I get:

ldap-agent: Not started!  Check log file for details.

And if I check the log file for details, I see:

2005-11-30 16:58:21 Starting ldap-agent...

The -D option generates no more additional information.

On the server, net-snmp is running, with agentx support, listening to a 
socket in /var/agentx/master.  The documentation states that version 
5.2.1 is required, but I'm only running 5.1.2.

Now I found that if I disabled iptables on this server, the agent came 
up, one time.  Thought that was it but then I found if I killed it and 
restarted it, it didn't come up.  And then with iptables enabled again, 
it did come up.  And then it didn't.  You get the picture - its very 
inconsistent :)

So, anyone have this running reliably?

Kevin

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Kevin M. Myer
Senior Systems Administrator
Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13  http://www.iu13.org