LDAP benchmark tools
April 9th, 2009
Currently I’m busy setting up Connections for a customer who is
active across the whole world.
Connections has to be set-up to use all LDAP domain servers in use, one
located in the North-America region, one located in the Asian Pacific
region and one located in Europe.
To give myself some more info about the request times looking
up users takes, I found these handy LDAP benchmark tools.
They will show you the time taken to lookup users in the LDAP.
Good info to know to see how much time it takes to lookup users located
in the LDAP domain server that’s located on the other end of the world.
This is one with a GUI, simple to use, not to advanced
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/14046.html
Command line one, not simple in its usage, and for my taste to advanced 
.
http://www.mindcraft.com/directorymark/
Be sure to set these attributes in the directorymark config file
!FILE CONFIG.CON2
SERVERNAME:10.19.20.100
SERVERPORT:389
CLIENTBASESCRIPTS:client1.script
BINDDN:CN=WebSphereLCbind,CN=Users,DC=globalcorp,DC=net
BINDPW:doyouneedtoknowthis
STATDIR:Results\ # Be sure this dir exists.
#For the first time running and to test if everything works out
#I would suggest to change the following attribute as follows
MAXRUNTIME:-1
NUMCLIENTS:1
THREADSPERCLIENT:1
# and enable these two attributes to get as much detailed results as possible
DEBUG:1
VERBOSE: 1
!FILE
FILE client1.script
bind_as_root
ldap_search
dc=ap,DC=globalcorp,DC=net
LDAP_SCOPE_SUBTREE
(&(sAMAccountName=dillm)(objectclass=user))
ALL
0
!FILE
Then running the directorymark.exe will give you a output similiar like below
C:\DirectoryMark1.3-Bin-Win2k>DirectoryMark.exe config.conf2
Running Script client1.script0
bind as root: ‘CN=WebSphereLCbind,CN=Users,DC=globalcorp,DC=net’, password ‘doyouneedtoknowit’
t00: ldap_search_st returned 0×00, time: 2 ms, numentries: 1, args: 3301328
, dc=ap,DC=leaseplancorp,DC=net, 2, (&(sAMAccountName=dillm)(objectclass=user)),
NULL, 1
Thread 0, Done with transactions
thread 0 complete
all threads complete
all children completed
