Hi,
I think I'm missing some email here from Alan ?
Anyways, LDAP should not be open, it should connect all the time. I
know why a connection is open, it should be faster response but even
than, that wouldn't be a good reason to keep a connection to ldap open
and just crash when it's losing that "only connection".
You cannot monitor this, you can only see it in the logs when LDAP
went gone and you try to access your imap server.
Logging that message might be an idea from the logs, but better
monitoring from dbmail itself would be MUCH better if you ask me.
Cheers,
Matt
2015-08-31 1:47 GMT+02:00 Reindl Harald <h.reindl@thelounge.net>:
>
>
> Am 31.08.2015 um 00:13 schrieb Alan Hicks:
>>
>> Keeping a connection open to LDAP allows much higher throughput so
>> opening a new connection when needed would degrade the service.
>
>
> but that's no reason DBMail dying when you reboot the LDAP server
>
>> LDAP is one of those services that should always be available because it
>> is a core authentication service so don't understand why yours is
>> disconnecting.
>
>
> you really don't want to restart services left and right on other machines
> after you reboot the LDAP server after as example a kernel update
>
>> Monitoring CAN fix this, nagios is used here at Persistent Objects but
>> any good monitoring software will work by checking if the service is
>> running and restart if not. Completely automatic and transparent to
>> users. Rarely kicks in as dbmail is so reliable.
>>
>> Not sure why you are getting annoyed at dbmail, I would be frustrated at
>> LDAP as it is 100% reliable here.
>
>
> as said: sometimes servers needs to be rebootet and stable services should
> just reconnect or *really* die not just stop working, if DBMail can't
> recover after lost of the LDAP connection it should just exit with a
> error-status when it no longer works at all
>
> in that case at least supervisors like systemd could restart it
> automatically
>
>
>> On 30/08/2015 13:03, Matt . wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Anyone a clue about this ? I think some monitoring can't fix this. So
>>> I'm figuring out a solution.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Matthijs
>>>
>>> 2015-07-27 11:25 GMT+02:00 Matt . <yamakasi.014@gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Guys,
>>>>
>>>> I'm wondering why DBmail needs a restart every time it's disconnected
>>>> from the ldap server.
>>>>
>>>> This actually kinda annoys me because it should just do a lookup if
>>>> needed and not have the connection open forever and die when it loses
>>>> it.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone a clue why this happens and how to workaround it ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>
>
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