eDirectory provides cross-platform monitoring and diagnostic capability to all servers in your eDirectory tree. This feature lets you monitor your servers from any location either by exposing multiple interfaces from different tools/protocol handlers or on your network where a Web browser is available. The eDirectory utilities such as ndscheck, iMonitor, LDAP rootdse search, and ndsrepair help in gathering the monitoring data.
eDirectory also provides an LDAP search method for retrieving the real time statistics for eDirectory subsystems and background processes. In this method, eDirectory records the state of eDirectory processes and operations as an entry with the base DN of cn=monitor. By using this interface, an eDirectory administrator can monitor the status of eDirectory modules and operations. eDirectory supports this feature on LDAP protocol and only an LDAP client can place requests for monitoring data.