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Al_Faller_1969
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Jun 10, 2011

Load Testing new LDAP systems

Hi All,     I am migrating to a new LDAP product and am concern about the load on the new system. Both my old and new environment are behind the same F5 BigIP systems. I have done my best at r...
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Hamish
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Jun 10, 2011
There aren't (IMO) any really truely good LDAP load generators out there...

 

 

I did manage to find a small C program last year that was (A) configurable, and (B) Fast for some testing work I was doing with a client last year... It was written in C (Perl was too slow), and needed a couple of alterations to work with Solaris 'not quite Unix' 10 instead of Linux, but ran OK after that.

 

 

The software was called (IIRC) charge... If you have problems finding it, drop me a line and i'll see if I can dig out the copy I was running and upload it.

 

 

Oh. If you have plenty of CPU, then you could write a small perl script to read the activity logs from your current servers and replicate the traffic to your new ldap infrastructure... Lack of CPU was the reason I abandoned that.

 

 

 

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