OVD 11g UniqueMember Attribute Shown Intermittently For LDAP Requests (Doc ID 2221165.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 11, 2019

Applies to:

Goal

A) Environment consists of a LDAP AD adapter which has the cache plugin and AD_to_inetOrg mapping applied.
when plugin order is:
1. Performance Monitor
2. Cache
3. AD_to_inetOrg

Upon the first ldapsearch for a group  uniquemember values are displayed, however, upon the second time and more, uniquemembers are not displayed.

means :
-- first time search sample
ldapsearch -h <OVD_HOSTNAME> -p <PORT> -D "cn=orcladmin" -w <PASSWORD>  -b "CN=<GROUPNAME>,OU=groups1,OU=<OU3>,OU=<OU2>,OU=<OU1>,DC=<COMPANY>,DC=com" "(cn=*)"

CN=<GROUPNAME>,OU=groups1,OU=<OU3>,OU=<OU2>,OU=<OU1>,DC=<COMPANY>,DC=com
uSNCreated=xxxxx
objectGUID=NOT ASCII
name=<GROUPNAME>
whenChanged=20161205144200.0Z
uSNChanged=xxxxxxx
uniqueMember=CN=<USERNAME1>,OU=users1,OU=<OU3>,OU=<OU2>,OU=<OU1>,DC=<COMPANY>,DC=com
uniqueMember=CN=<USERNAME2>,OU=users1,OU=<OU3>,OU=<OU2>,OU=<OU1>,DC=<COMPANY>,DC=com

.....
> uniqueMember show.

-- on the second search, uniqueMember do not appear at all

ldapsearch --h <OVD_HOSTNAME> -p <PORT> -D "cn=orcladmin" -w <PASSWORD> -b "CN=<GROUPNAME>,OU=groups1,OU=<OU3>,OU=<OU2>,OU=<OU1>,DC=<COMPANY>,DC=com" "(cn=*)"

CN=<GROUPNAME>,OU=groups1,OU=<OU3>,OU=<OU2>,OU=<OU1>,DC=<COMPANY>,DC=com
uSNCreated=xxxxx
objectGUID=NOT ASCII
name=<GROUPNAME>
whenChanged=20161205144200.0Z
uSNChanged=xxxxxxx

//-> no uniqueMember

.
B) When changing the plugin order to
1. Performance Monitor
2. AD_to_inetOrg
3. Cache
The issue does not reoccur.

What causes this behavior?

Solution

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