DirX Directory LDAP Extended Operations

The LDAP "extended operation" concept is part of LDAPv3. Its purpose is to provide a mechanism for defining additional operations for services that are not available in the protocol. An LDAP extended operation allows a client to send an extended operation request to a server that supports the extended operation. The client includes the identifier of the extended operation to be performed and extended operation-specific data. The server performs the extended operation and then returns a response which can contain an identifier and/or data. For the complete description of the LDAP extended operation, see Section 4.12, “Extended Operation” in the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3), RFC 4511, June 2006.

The DirX Directory LDAP server provides support for LDAP extended operations. These operations are mainly for directory support and monitoring purposes, and provide management information base (MIB) table data and other diagnostic data of the DirX Directory server processes. The description of the dirxextop command in the DirX Directory Administration Reference provides more information about these operations.