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Information from rootDSE is useful for application developers.
Scenario: Developing an Application— Henri is writing an application that creates a new replica.
Henri reads rootDSE and finds supportedExtension: 2.16.840.1.113719.1.27.100.7 in the list. Henri
knows that the server supports the call to create a new replica.
Also, Novell iManager checks to see what functionality is available in rootDSE and then behaves
according to that information.
To search rootDSE, enter the following at a workstation:
ldapsearch -h hostname -p 389 -b "" -s base “objectclass=*”
This search can be performed by any application using the ldap_search APIs.
The key to the search is that the base is null and the filter is set to objectclass=*. (In the case of this
client, the base is -b.)
For more information on reading the rootDSE, refer to one of the following:
• LDAP Libraries for C (http://developer.novell.com/ndk/doc/cldap/ldaplibc/data/hevgtl7k.html)
• LDAP Classes for Java (http://developer.novell.com/ndk/doc/jldap/jldapenu/data/
hevgtl7k.html)
For information on LDAP search filters, see LDAP Search Filters (http://developer.novell.com/ndk/
doc/ldapover/ldap_enu/data/a3saoeg.html) . This section is in the LDAP and NDS Integration
section of the NDK documentation.
Server statistics: RootDSE provides a variety of
statistics about the LDAP server (for example, the
number of strong authentication binds). errors: 0
securityErrors: 0
chainings: 3
referralsReturned: 6
extendedOps: 0
abandonOps: 0
wholeSubtreeSearchOps: 1
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