LDAP monitoring with PRTG
Increase the availability of your directory servers, applications, and services
- Continuously monitor your directory services using LDAP
- Quickly detect and resolve critical performance issues
- Set up in minutes with preconfigured or custom sensors
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PRTG makes LDAP monitoring as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent low performance and downtimes of your directory servers and services.
Maintain the reliability & performance of your LDAP servers with PRTG
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is typically used to authenticate user accounts and users, for example the employees of a company. With LDAP monitoring, however, the focus isn’t so much on the LDAP protocol but on the status of LDAP servers. With Paessler PRTG, you can keep an eye on all key parameters of your directory servers.
Availability monitoring
When response times are too high and uptime too low, access to data becomes painstakingly slow – or even nonexistent. This not only causes headaches for users, but also reduces the productivity of your business. Avoid downtime and network crashes by using LDAP monitoring with PRTG.
Performance monitoring
Set up PRTG to monitor CPU usage, memory, and disk usage on the LDAP server to ensure it has enough resources to handle requests efficiently. Make sure that your hardware performs at its best by quickly detecting and resolving critical performance issues to enhance user experience.
Security monitoring
Always have an eye on your log files for better access control over your LDAP directory, including failed login attempts. PRTG comes with a wealth of historical data that you can analyze in detail to identify unauthorized access attempts or unusual patterns of activity.
What LDAP server observability looks like in PRTG
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking the availability, health, and performance of your LDAP server. Show detailed information about response times, CPU load, bandwidth usage, network traffic, and other key metrics in real time. Visualize monitoring data in clear graphs and dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the overview you need to troubleshoot slow authentication workflows, faulty LDAP configs, server downtimes, and other issues.
Device tree view of the complete monitoring setup
Preconfigured LDAP sensor in PRTG
Custom PRTG dashboard for keeping an eye on the entire IT infrastructure
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How monitoring via LDAP works
Out-of-the-box monitoring
PRTG comes equipped with an LDAP sensor that connects to the LDAP server (or directory) and measures the response time. This connection is called a “bind” operation, which means a login to the LDAP server using the “bind” command.
Proactive troubleshooting
If the server stops responding (or the response time exceeds a predefined threshold), PRTG immediately sends you an alert. This allows you to quickly fix the problem before your network crashes by allocating resources more efficiently, for example with advanced load balancing.
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3 simple reasons PRTG is the best LDAP monitoring solution
PRTG is a network monitoring tool that works great in distributed networks for the precise monitoring of mail servers, web servers, database servers, virtual servers, and LDAP servers.
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PRTG makes LDAP monitoring as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent low performance and downtimes of your directory servers and services.
LDAP monitoring: FAQ
What is LDAP?
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a simple network protocol for accessing directories. It is the only protocol that allows for communication between an LDAP client and a directory server. By monitoring your LDAP server, you’ll be able to make sure this communication is always running smoothly.
A “directory server” is an LDAP server or a computer that provides a directory service such as Microsoft Active Directory. The LDAP protocol refers to a data structure that is created in accordance with the specifications of LDAP. The current LDAP version is LDAPv3.
How does LDAP work?
In practice, the communication between the client and server goes like this: An LDAP protocol is used to query (and store) information inside an LDAP directory. This information usually includes data on users, PCs, and the certificates of a computer. Two default ports are used here:
- Port 389 for the unsecured transfer of data
- Port 636 for the transfer of data secured by SSL/TLS
Which network components support LDAP?
LDAP is an industry-standard authentication and authorization protocol. As a result, every corporate network is likely to have at least one LDAP server whose information should be monitored. Pretty much every endpoint that deals with user data in some form or another supports the LDAP protocol:
- Address data management software such as Outlook and Thunderbird
- User management software such as Microsoft Active Directory Service and Apple Open Directory
- Authentication solutions (e.g., Privileged Access Management)
- User data management solutions for SMTP, POP, and IMAP servers
How do I set up LDAP server monitoring with PRTG?
PRTG comes with a predefined LDAP sensor for monitoring LDAP servers. This sensor is certified as compatible with Microsoft products based on LDAP. It also works with LDAP integrations from other providers in a non-certified capacity.
Setting up the LDAP Sensor is quick and easy. When adding the sensor for the first time, you can select or define your LDAP monitoring settings.
- Create a name for the sensor and (if necessary) tags to improve data classification.
- Choose a secure (SSL) or unsecure connection to the LDAP server.
- Choose between the default ports 389 and 636 or a different port defined by you.
- Specify the DN (distinguished name).
- Enter the password for the DN (to authenticate the LDAP server).
- Specify the settings for the scanning intervals, monitoring schedules, and more.
Note: If you opt for a secure (SSL/TLS) connection, then the sensor will require a DNS name in the settings of the parent device for the configuration. The sensor only supports the IPv4 protocol and has a moderate impact on performance.
What is a sensor in PRTG?
In PRTG, “sensors” are the basic monitoring elements. One sensor usually monitors one measured value in your network, for example the traffic of a switch port, the CPU load of a server, or the free space on a disk drive.
On average, you need about 5-10 sensors per device or one sensor per switch port.
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