How Extended Operation Plug-Ins Work Extended operations are part of the LDAP v3 protocol. You can define your own operation that you want the server to perform, and you can assign an OID to identify that operation.
LDAP clients can request the operation by sending an extended operation request.
The plug-in function has access to both the OID and the data in the client's request. In order to use extended operations, you need to configure both the server and the client to understand the specific extended operation that you want performed. When the Directory Server receives an extended operation request, the front-end calls the extended operation function with the same OID as specified in the request. The front-end makes the following information available in the form of parameters in a parameter block. This indicates that the front-end does not need to send a result code.