Directory Server (LDAP) - Manage server connections

Manage server connections

It is often necessary for an administrator to view the connections to the server and the operations performed by those connections. The administrator can then make decisions to control access and prevent denial of service attacks. This is done through the Web administration tool.

Expand the Server administration category in the navigation area. Click Manage server connections. A table containing the following information for each connection is displayed:

Note:

To change server configuration settings using the tasks in the Server administration category of the Web Administration tool, you must authenticate to the server as an i5/OS user profile that has *ALLOBJ and IOSYSCFG special authorities. This can be done by authenticating as a projected user with the password for that profile. To bind as a projected user from the Web administration tool, enter a username of the form os400-profile=MYUSERNAME,cn=accounts,os400-sys=MYSYSTEM.COM, where MYUSERNAME and the MYSYSTEM.COM strings are replaced with your user profile name and the configured system projection suffix, respectively.

DN: Specifies the DNs of a client connection to the server.
IP address: Specifies the IP address of the client that has a connection to the server.
Start time: Specifies the date and time (in the server's local time) when the connection was made.
Status: Specifies whether the connection is active or idle. A connection is considered active if it has any operations in progress.
Ops initiated: Specifies the number of operations requested since the connection was established.
Ops completed: Specifies the number of operations that have been completed for each connection.
Type: Specifies whether the connection is secured by SSL or TLS. Otherwise, the field is blank.

Note:

This table displays up to 20 connections at a time.

You can specify to have this table displayed by either DN or IP address by expanding the drop-down menu at the top of the panel and making a selection. The default selection is by DN. Similarly you can also specify whether to display the table in ascending or descending order.

Click Refresh to update the current connection information.

If you are logged on as the administrator or as a member of the administration group, you have additional selections to disconnect server connections available on the panel. This ability to disconnect server connections enables you to stop denial of service attacks and to control server access. You can disconnect a connection by expanding the drop-down menus and selecting a DN, an IP address, or both and clicking Disconnect.

To disconnect all server connections except for the one making this request click Disconnect all. A confirmation warning is displayed. Click OK to proceed with the disconnect action or click Cancel to end the action and return to the Manage server connections panel.

For more information on preventing denial of service attacks see, Manage connection properties.