Please provide a ping() convenience method for healthchecks to analyze whether the client object has a good connection to the LDAP server.

For example, submit a search query.

This represents a common operation that users shouldn't have to dig into low level details to figure out.

From @benyanke on April 19, 2018 1:14

Added a bunch of optional config options in #8 , however, didn't also update the example config file to show off these cases.

Copied from original issue: nmcclain/glauth#12