Archive for December 22nd, 2008

Determine CSN update time from CSR in Directory Server 5/6

Published by Mike on December 22, 2008 under ldap, replication, sun

I needed to determine the update time for a particular attribute for one of my customers.  I knew I had ran across how to get it from a csn attribute.

If you can obtain the CSN of an attribute, ie: from the nscpentrywsi operational attribute), the timestamp is the first 8 bytes of the CSN, in hex format.

ie:

nscpentrywsi: cn;adcsn-494d685d000000010000;vucsn-494d685d000000010000: The K

The timestamp in hex is: 494d685d

With a bit of perl magic, we can obtain the localtime value:

perl -e ‘print localtime(hex(”494d685d”)) . “\n”;’

Which returns:

Sat Dec 20 16:49:17 2008