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HP-UX Directory Server Administrator Guide HP-UX Directory Server Version 8.1 (5900-3098, May 2013)

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3. Click Refresh to refresh the currently displayed information. For the directory to continuously
update the displayed information, select the Continuous checkbox, then click Refresh.
Table 67 General information (database)
DescriptionField
Identifies the type of database being monitored.Database
Identifies the distinguished name that must be used as a search base to obtain these
results using the ldapsearch command line utility.
Configuration DN
The Summary Information section shows the cumulative information for all the databases being
monitored and some cache-related configuration settings that are applied to all databases.
Table 68 Summary information
Current totalPerformance metric
Shows whether the database is currently in read-only mode. The database is
in read-only mode when the nsslapd-readonly attribute is set to on.
Read-Only Status
The total number of successful entry cache lookups. That is, the total number of
times the server could process a search request by obtaining data from the
cache rather than by going to disk.
Entry Cache Hits
The total number of entry cache lookups since the directory was last started.
That is, the total number of search operations performed against the server
since server startup.
Entry Cache Tries
Ratio that indicates the number of entry cache tries to successful entry cache
lookups. This number is based on the total lookups and hits since the directory
Entry Cache Hit Ratio
was last started. The closer this value is to 100%, the better. Whenever a search
operation attempts to find an entry that is not present in the entry cache, the
directory has to perform a disk access to obtain the entry. Thus, as this ratio
drops towards zero, the number of disk accesses increases, and directory
search performance drops. To improve this ratio, increase the number of entries
that the directory maintains in the entry cache by increasing the value of the
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