Note: this component is designated "advanced", which means that objects of this type are not expected to be created or altered in most environments. If you believe that such a change is necessary, you may want to contact support in order to understand the potential impact of that change.
The Task Backend provides a mechanism for scheduling tasks in the Directory Server. Tasks are intended to provide access to certain types of administrative functions in the server that may not be convenient to perform remotely.
The Directory Server supports tasks to backup and restore backends, to import and export LDIF files, and to stop and restart the server. The details of a task are in an entry that is below the root of the Task Backend. The Task Backend is responsible for decoding that task entry and ensuring that it is processed as requested. Tasks may be invoked immediately, but they may also be scheduled for execution at some future time.
The Task Backend component inherits from the Backend
The properties supported by this managed object are as follows:
| General Configuration Basic Properties: | Advanced Properties: |
|---|---|
| description | backend-id |
| enabled | base-dn |
| writability-mode | set-degraded-alert-when-disabled |
| return-unavailable-when-disabled | |
| backup-file-permissions | |
| notification-manager | |
| Task Configuration Basic Properties: | Advanced Properties: |
| task-backing-file | None |
| maximum-initial-task-log-messages-to-retain | |
| maximum-final-task-log-messages-to-retain | |
| task-retention-time | |
| notification-sender-address |
| Property Group | General Configuration |
| Description | A description for this Backend |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | A string |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Property Group | General Configuration |
| Description | Indicates whether the backend is enabled in the server. If a backend is not enabled, then its contents are not accessible when processing operations. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Property Group | General Configuration |
| Description | Specifies the behavior that the backend should use when processing write operations. |
| Default Value | enabled |
| Allowed Values | enabled - Allows write operations to be performed in that backend (if the requested operation is valid, the user has permission to perform the operation, the backend supports that type of write operation, and the global writability-mode property is also enabled). disabled - Causes all write attempts to fail. internal-only - Causes external write attempts to fail but allows writes by replication and internal operations. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Property Group | Task Configuration |
| Description | Specifies the path to the backing file for storing information about the tasks configured in the server. It may be either an absolute path or a relative path to the base of the Directory Server instance. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | A filesystem path |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
maximum-initial-task-log-messages-to-retain
| Property Group | Task Configuration |
| Description | The maximum number of log messages to retain in each task entry from the beginning of the processing for that task. If too many messages are logged during task processing, then retaining only a limited number of messages from the beginning and/or end of task processing can reduce the amount of memory that the server consumes by caching information about currently-active and recently-completed tasks. The server will use the following logic in determining which log messages to retain in the entry for a task:
Note that even if some messages logged during task processing are omitted from the task entry, all messages will still be properly recorded in the server error log. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | An integer value. Lower limit is 0. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
maximum-final-task-log-messages-to-retain
| Property Group | Task Configuration |
| Description | The maximum number of log messages to retain in each task entry from the end of the processing for that task. If too many messages are logged during task processing, then retaining only a limited number of messages from the beginning and/or end of task processing can reduce the amount of memory that the server consumes by caching information about currently-active and recently-completed tasks. The server will use the following logic in determining which log messages to retain in the entry for a task:
Note that even if some messages logged during task processing are omitted from the task entry, all messages will still be properly recorded in the server error log. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | An integer value. Lower limit is 0. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Property Group | Task Configuration |
| Description | Specifies the length of time that task entries should be retained after processing on the associated task has been completed. |
| Default Value | 24 hours |
| Allowed Values | A duration. Lower limit is 0 seconds. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Property Group | Task Configuration |
| Description | Specifies the email address to use as the sender address (that is, the "From:" address) for notification mail messages generated when a task completes execution. |
| Default Value | The default sender address used is "PingDirectory-task-notification@" followed by the canonical address of the system on which the server is running. |
| Allowed Values | A string |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
backend-id (Advanced Property, Read-Only)
| Property Group | General Configuration |
| Description | Specifies a name to identify the associated backend. The name must be unique among all backends in the server. The backend ID may not be altered after the backend is created in the server. |
| Default Value | tasks |
| Allowed Values | A string |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
base-dn (Advanced Property, Read-Only)
| Property Group | General Configuration |
| Description | Specifies the base DN(s) for the data that the backend handles. A single backend may be responsible for one or more base DNs. Note that no two backends may have the same base DN although one backend may have a base DN that is below a base DN provided by another backend (similar to the use of sub-suffixes in the Sun Java System Directory Server). If any of the base DNs is subordinate to a base DN for another backend, then all base DNs for that backend must be subordinate to that same base DN. |
| Default Value | cn=tasks |
| Allowed Values | A valid DN. |
| Multi-Valued | Yes |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | No administrative action is required by default although some action may be required on a per-backend basis before the new base DN may be used.
Although it is currently supported, the use of multiple base DNs per backend is not recommended and this capability may be removed in the future. If you are considering the use of multiple base DNs in a backend, you should first contact Ping Identity support to discuss this configuration |
set-degraded-alert-when-disabled (Advanced Property)
| Property Group | General Configuration |
| Description | Determines whether the Directory Server enters a DEGRADED state (and sends a corresponding alert) when this Backend is disabled. |
| Default Value | true |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
return-unavailable-when-disabled (Advanced Property)
| Property Group | General Configuration |
| Description | Determines whether any LDAP operation that would use this Backend is to return UNAVAILABLE when this Backend is disabled. |
| Default Value | true |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
backup-file-permissions (Advanced Property)
| Property Group | General Configuration | ||||||
| Description | Specifies the permissions that should be applied to files and directories created by a backup of the backend. They should be expressed as three-digit octal values, which is the traditional representation for UNIX file permissions. The three digits represent the permissions that are available for the file or directory's owner, group members, and other users (in that order), and each digit is the octal representation of the read, write, and execute bits. Execute permissions are only applied to directories. If the underlying platform does not allow the full level of granularity specified in the permissions, then an attempt will be made to set them as closely as possible to the provided permissions, erring on the side of security. Due to Java platform limitations, it may not be possible to set group member permissions independently of other user permissions, even on UNIX. | ||||||
| Default Value | 700 | ||||||
| Allowed Values | Any octal value between 700 and 777 (the owner must always have read, write, and execute permissions). Example values
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| Multi-Valued | No | ||||||
| Required | No | ||||||
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
notification-manager (Advanced Property)
| Property Group | General Configuration |
| Description | Specifies a notification manager for changes resulting from operations processed through this Backend |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | The DN of any Notification Manager. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
To list the configured Backends:
dsconfig list-backends
[--property {propertyName}] ...
To view the configuration for an existing Backend:
dsconfig get-backend-prop
--backend-name {name}
[--tab-delimited]
[--script-friendly]
[--property {propertyName}] ...
To update the configuration for an existing Backend:
dsconfig set-backend-prop
--backend-name {name}
(--set|--add|--remove) {propertyName}:{propertyValue}
[(--set|--add|--remove) {propertyName}:{propertyValue}] ...