What can you do with ldapsearch
outputs? Not much. With JSON, though ..
# from LDAP search tool ...
ldapsearch -h 127.0.0.1 -p 10389 \
-D "cn=me,ou=Acme,dc=local" -w 'mypa$$w00t" \
-b "ou=machines,ou=Acme,dc=local" \
-s sub "(objectclass=machine)"