Troubleshooting system performance bottlenecks is not an easy topic to address because you need to check many components . The Agent Activity page in NDS iMonitor provides you with some useful information about eDirectory performance.
Figure 9.15 shows a sample DSA verb/process statistics report. It provides the traffic pattern ”in terms of how many hits over a given time period ”broken down by type. For instance, since the time the counters were reset, there have been almost 2,000 requests to read entry info but only 3 modify-entry requests. This suggests that this server is read- intensive . In the event of a performance problem with this server, you should check things such as the DS cache allocation, operating system cache availability, and anything else that could affect read functions.
Figure 9.15. DSA verb statistics.
Chapter 16, "Tuning eDirectory," covers the details of how you can tune NDS/eDirectory for better performance by setting up indexes and proper DIB cache allocations . It also includes discussions that are operating system specific.
