In a previous tip, I’ve talked about troubleshooting index problems with OpenDS. Sometimes, one might need to get a better understanding of the OpenDS databases to troubleshoot some data or performance issue.
Here comes the little known OpenDS feature : dbtest.
dbtest is a command line utility that can be used to inspect the content of an OpenDS JE backend (which relies on the Oracle Berkeley Database Java Edition).
The command can be used to list the root container, the entry container, the database containers, get statistics on their content, see the status of index files and possibly dump the content of the database. While dumping the database is hardly useful for most people the tool still has a couple of features of general interest.
It can be used to list all database containers for the userRoot backend, including the index containers, their names and their current entry count.
$ bin/dbtest list-database-containers -b “dc=example,dc=com” -n “userRoot”
Database Name Database Type JE Database Name Entry Count
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dn2id DN2ID dc_example_dc_com_dn2id 102
id2entry ID2Entry dc_example_dc_com_id2entry 102
referral DN2URI dc_example_dc_com_referral 0
id2children Index dc_example_dc_com_id2children 2
id2subtree Index dc_example_dc_com_id2subtree 2
state State dc_example_dc_com_state 19
uniqueMember.equality Index dc_example_dc_com_uniqueMember.equality 0
sn.equality Index dc_example_dc_com_sn.equality 100
sn.substring Index dc_example_dc_com_sn.substring 541
objectClass.equality Index dc_example_dc_com_objectClass.equality 6
entryUUID.equality Index dc_example_dc_com_entryUUID.equality 102
ds-sync-hist.ordering Index dc_example_dc_com_ds-sync-hist.ordering 0
aci.presence Index dc_example_dc_com_aci.presence 0
cn.equality Index dc_example_dc_com_cn.equality 100
cn.substring Index dc_example_dc_com_cn.substring 1137
telephoneNumber.equality Index dc_example_dc_com_telephoneNumber.equality 100
telephoneNumber.substring Index dc_example_dc_com_telephoneNumber.substring 956
givenName.equality Index dc_example_dc_com_givenName.equality 100
givenName.substring Index dc_example_dc_com_givenName.substring 396
uid.equality Index dc_example_dc_com_uid.equality 100
mail.equality Index dc_example_dc_com_mail.equality 100
mail.substring Index dc_example_dc_com_mail.substring 525
member.equality Index dc_example_dc_com_member.equality 0
Total: 23
Or dbtest can be used to retrieve the system and user indexes and their status.
$ bin/dbtest list-index-status -b “dc=example,dc=com” -n “userRoot”
Index Name Index Type JE Database Name Index Status
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id2children Index dc_example_dc_com_id2children true
id2subtree Index dc_example_dc_com_id2subtree true
uniqueMember.equality Index dc_example_dc_com_uniqueMember.equality true
sn.equality Index dc_example_dc_com_sn.equality true
sn.substring Index dc_example_dc_com_sn.substring true
objectClass.equality Index dc_example_dc_com_objectClass.equality true
entryUUID.equality Index dc_example_dc_com_entryUUID.equality true
ds-sync-hist.ordering Index dc_example_dc_com_ds-sync-hist.ordering true
aci.presence Index dc_example_dc_com_aci.presence true
cn.equality Index dc_example_dc_com_cn.equality true
cn.substring Index dc_example_dc_com_cn.substring true
telephoneNumber.equality Index dc_example_dc_com_telephoneNumber.equality true
telephoneNumber.substring Index dc_example_dc_com_telephoneNumber.substring true
givenName.equality Index dc_example_dc_com_givenName.equality true
givenName.substring Index dc_example_dc_com_givenName.substring true
uid.equality Index dc_example_dc_com_uid.equality true
mail.equality Index dc_example_dc_com_mail.equality true
mail.substring Index dc_example_dc_com_mail.substring true
member.equality Index dc_example_dc_com_member.equality true
Total: 19
An index status of true means it’s a trusted index, a status of false means the index is no longer trusted and needs
rebuilding.
You can find more details on the dbtest tool on the OpenDS documentation wiki.
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