The following example shows how to verify the sn (surname) index for completeness and for errors. The messages shown are for a backend of type pdb. The output is similar for other backend types: $ verify-index -b dc=example,dc=com -i sn --clean --countErrors [20/05/2015:14:24:18 +0200] category=...PDBStorage seq=0 severity=INFO msg=The PDB storage for backend 'userRoot' initialized to use 57528 buffers of 16384 bytes (total 920448kb) [20/05/2015:14:24:18 +0200] category=...pluggable.VerifyJob seq=1 severity=INFO msg=Checked 478 records and found 0 error(s) in 0 seconds (average rate 3594.0/sec) [20/05/2015:14:24:18 +0200] category=...pluggable.VerifyJob seq=2 severity=FINE msg=Number of records referencing more than one entry: 224 [20/05/2015:14:24:18 +0200] category=...pluggable.VerifyJob seq=3 severity=FINE msg=Number of records that exceed the entry limit: 0 [20/05/2015:14:24:18 +0200] category=...pluggable.VerifyJob seq=4 severity=FINE msg=Average number of entries referenced is 2.00/record [20/05/2015:14:24:18 +0200] category=...pluggable.VerifyJob seq=5 severity=FINE msg=Maximum number of entries referenced by any record is 32