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Monitor your Active Directory Infrastructure
- Monitor Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Active Directory Domains 24 x 7 x 365
- Detect Active Directory problems quickly.
- Pin-point the exact failure.
- Realtime alerting - proactive response for problems impacting Active Directory service.
- Minimize Active Directory downtime.
- Know the health of your Active Directory environment, inside out.
Need for Active Directory Monitoring
Active Directory is the directory service included with Windows servers and provides the means to manage the identities and relationships that make up network environments. Its performance can affect the rest of your system. Seasoned administrators know that it is absolutely important to monitor Active Directory 24 X 7, to detect and resolve potential network problems before they arise, so that your users are not denied access to critical services. Proactive monitoring helps the administrator to retain control of the environment.
And most importantly...when Active Directory fails Exchange stops working!
Active Directory Monitoring - Monitor Active Directory Services
Active Directory depends on certain critical services for proper operation.The first step in ensuring Active Directory availability is to monitor these critical services.
Active Directory Monitoring monitors the following critical services:
- Server Service that enables the computer to connect to other computers on the network based on the SMB protocol.
- File Replication Service that maintains file synchronization of file directory contents among domain controller servers.
- DNS Client service that resolves and caches DNS names. Without DNS computers cannot find each other.
- Security Accounts Manager Service that signals other services that the Security Accounts Manager subsystem is ready to accept requests.
- Intersite Messaging Service that is used for email-based replication between sites.
- Kerberos Key Distribution Center Service that enables users to log on to the network using Kerberos version 5 authentication protocol.
- Net Logon Service that supports pass-through authentication of account logon events for computers in a domain.
When any of these services become unavailable, your Active Directory Server will not be able to perform critical tasks properly. And your computers will have problems communicating
Active Directory Monitoring - Domain Controller Roles
Domain controller roles perform specific functions in an Active Directory environment. These specialized roles include:
- PDC Emulator
- Infrastructure Master
- RID Master
- Domain Naming Master
- Schema Master
Monitoring these crucial roles is important to ensuring the health of Active Directory.
Active Directory Monitoring - Monitor Critical Processes, Counters & AD Store
Active Directory has many mission critical parts that need to be constantly monitored, including the usage of critical LSASS & NTFRS processes. Parameters monitored include CPU Usage, Physical RAM, File Reads, File Writes, Cache Hits, etc. You can also monitor critical Network counters like Connected Users, LDAP Client Sessions, & LDAP Bind Time as well as Performance Counters like NTLM Authentication, Kerberos Authentication & LDAP Searches.
