Using Web Administration

You can manage the server connections using Web Administration Tool as discussed here.

About this task

Expand the Server administration category in the navigation area. Click Manage server connections. A table containing the following information for each connection is displayed. You can use the arrows next to each header to specify a sort in either ascending or descending order. You can also either use the Select Action drop-down list to select Edit sort and click Go or click the Edit sort icon to specify up to three sort criteria.

DN: Specifies the DNs of a client connection to the server.
IP address: Specifies the IP address of the client that has a connection to the server.
Start time: Specifies the date and time when the connection was made.
Status: Specifies whether the connection is active or idle. A connection is considered active if it has any operations in progress.
Ops pending: Specifies the number of operations pending since the connection was established.
Ops completed: Specifies the number of operations that have been completed for each connection.
Type: Specifies whether the connection is secured by SSL or TLS. Otherwise the field is blank.

Note:

This table displays up to 20 connections at a time.

You can specify to have this table displayed by either DN or IP address by expanding the drop-down menu at the top of the panel and making a selection. The default selection is by DN. Similarly you can also specify whether to display the table in ascending or descending order.

Click Refresh or select Refresh from the Select Action drop-down list and click Go to update the current connection information.

If you are logged on as the administrator or as a member of the Local administration group having DirDataAdmin or ServerConfigGroupMember role, you have additional selections to disconnect server connections available on the panel. This ability to disconnect server connections enables you to stop denial of service attacks and to control server access. You can disconnect a connection by expanding the drop-down menus and selecting a DN, an IP address or both and clicking Disconnect. Depending on your selections the following actions occur:

Table 1. Disconnection rules
DN chosen	IP address chosen	Action
<DNvalue>	None	All connections bound with the specified DN are disconnected.
None	<IPvalue>	All connections over the specified IP address are disconnected.
<DNvalue>	<IPvalue>	All connections bound as the specified DN and over the specified IP address are disconnected.
None	None	This is not a valid condition. You must specify a DN or an IP address or both to use the disconnect function.

The default value for each of the drop-down menus is None.

To disconnect all server connections except for the one making this request click Disconnect all. A confirmation warning is displayed. Click OK to proceed with the disconnect action or click Cancel to end the action and return to the Manage server connections panel.