ldap_response query mechanism

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

Trying to understand the query mechanism used to determine the root DSE

Environment

• UIM
• ldap_response

Resolution

This is using SASL to get this information. A couple queries from a Linux command line can be performed to verify availability of mechanisms:

ldapsearch -x -H ldaps://example.com:636 -s base -b "" "supportedSASLMechanisms"

The following will test if data can be returned:

ldapsearch -x -H ldaps://example.com:636 -s base -b "" "(objectclass=*)" "+"