[Fedora-directory-users] FDS, SNMP & Cacti...

[Richard Megginson]

David Boreham wrote:
> Howard Chu wrote:
>
>>
>> I really wish Net::LDAP would just go away and die. People should be 
>> using Mozilla::LDAP (or Net::LDAPapi), particularly when they're 
>> doing timing measurements. I guess as a monitoring device to say "is 
>> it alive" it's not too crucial, but you have to realize that when it 
>> says it measures the response time of the LDAP server, 99% of the 
>> measured time is actually perl execution, and only 1% is actual 
>> network+LDAP time. (That's not an exaggeration; there is a clear 
>> 100:1 difference in execution time between Net::LDAP and 
>> Mozilla::LDAP / Net::LDAPapi.)
>
> Still, a pure Perl solution is nice from an integration perspective.
But even Net::LDAP is not entirely perl - the SSL bits call out to 
openssl via Net::SSLeay.  There may be other C bits called as well.
> Is either Mozilla::LDAP or Net::LDAPapi shipped with a popular
> Linux distribution today ?
Not yet.
>
> In an application like Cacti, the service response time measurement is
> really aimed at detecting an overloaded service (hence requests queue
> and response time becomes very high). So I'm not sure a few ms matters
> one way or the other.
>
> btw I'd vote for more effort put in to making the Python LDAP support
> better and more widely distributed -- Perl itself is evil (IMHO of 
> course).
python-ldap++
>
>
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