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Timothy_92333's avatar
Timothy_92333
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Oct 01, 2014

LDAP Monitor Debug

Folks, I've been looking over a few posts that have mentioned LDAP monitors to understand the DEBUG option. I've enabled DEBUG on a couple of LDAP monitors because there are intermittent log entri...
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Ian_Mahuron_383
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Oct 15, 2014

The LDAP monitor's debug messages tend to be on the negative side. That is, they accompany hard errors and there are very few informational messages. In fact, you're seeing one of the few informational messages, "Host URL". In this particular case, no news is good news. You can safely assume that a request was sent and the response was handled. If I were to take a guess, I'd say the LDAP server send back no results, thus no "Up".

 

Try simulating your query using ldapsearch from the TMOS command line. It may provide some insight as to why your monitors are failing.