Active Administrator 8.5

Pushing alerts to System Center Operations Manager and SNMP managers

If you have a license for the Active Directory Health module, you can forward the Active Directory Health alerts generated by Active Directory Health Analyzer agents to Microsoft® System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and SNMP managers. These alerts will appear in the Quest Alert Events view, under the Quest Active Administrator folder in the Operations Manager Monitoring pane and in the SNMP Manager.


	NOTE: Only System Center 2016 Operations Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager, and System Center 2012 SP1 Operations Manager are supported. See Configuring SCOM and SNMP Settings. NOTE: Only SNMP management software capable of TRAP v2 notifications processing is supported. See Configuring SCOM and SNMP Settings.

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Limiting alert notifications

To configure the System Center Operations Manager Alert Notification and SNMP Alert Notification

Select Active Directory Health | Agents.

Open the Monitored Domain Controllers tab.

Click Notifications.

Select System Center Operations Manager Alert Notification.

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Select SNMP Alert Notification.

Click Edit.

For SCOM and SNMP alerts, alert notification is enabled by default. To disable the alert notification, clear the check box.

To choose which Active Directory Health alerts to push, click Alert Selection.

By default, all Active Directory Health alerts are included in the notification. If you want to send notifications for selected alerts, clear the check box, and select the alerts to include. For more information on the alerts, see the Alerts Appendix.

By default, alerts detected by the Active Directory Health Analyzer agents are sent to the SCOM server or the SNMP manager, unless you specify otherwise in the Forest Selection, Domain Selection, Domain Controller Selection, and Site Selection tabs. See Creating alert notifications.


	NOTE: The SCOM server and the SNMP manager are identified during the configuration wizard.

Click OK.

Limiting alert notifications

To prevent being overwhelmed with notifications, you set up the notification limiter to govern the number of notifications sent within a specified time period. For example, you set the notification limit to 100 notifications within 20 minutes with a 10 minute reset time, which is the default. Once 100 notifications are sent within the 20 minute time period, notifications are suspended for 10 minutes, which is the reset time.

The Notification Limiter dialog indicates if notifications are being sent or suspended and the countdown for the reset. Once the Current Count reaches the limit, the Reset Duration starts to increment. The Missed Notification indicates the number of notifications that were not sent. Click Refresh to renew the display information.Once the Reset Duration reaches the limit, all counts return to zero. You can manually reset the counter when notifications are suspended by clicking Reset.


	NOTE: The notification limit applies collectively to all email notifications sent from Active Directory Health Analyzer. Any email notification from Active Administrator Health, including Active Directory Health Analyzer agent notifications, increases the notification count in the notification limiter count by one.

To limit notifications

Select Active Directory Health | Agents.

Open the Monitored Domain Controllers tab, if necessary.

Click Limiter.

By default, the notification limiter feature is enabled. If you want unlimited notifications sent, clear the Enabled check box.

By default, an email is sent to the administrator when the limit is reached. To suppress the email, clear the check box.

Set the number of notifications to send within a specified time period. Once the limit is met, notifications are suspended until the reset time period is met.

Set the reset time period, which is the period of time to wait after the limit is met before automatically resetting the count.

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To renew the counter display, click Refresh.

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To reset the counters manually, click Reset.


	NOTE: Notifications must be in the Suspended state to reset the counters manually.

Click OK.

Managing monitored domain controllers

The first time you open the Agents option, the Monitored Domain Controllers page display is empty. The first task is to install a Active Directory Health Analyzer agent. See Installing Active Directory Health Analyzer agents. Once an agent is installed the Monitored Domain Controllers page lists the domain controllers monitored by Active Directory Health Analyzer agents. The name of the server monitoring each domain controller is listed in the Monitored by column.


	NOTE: To help you assess the health of the monitored domain controllers, use the Summary tab in the Active Directory Health \| Analyzer. See Analyzing Active Directory health.

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Adding monitored domain controllers

To manage monitored domain controllers

Select Active Directory Health | Agents.

Select the Monitored Domain Controllers tab.

Use the toolbar to manage domain controllers.

Table 58. Monitored domain controllers tool bar
Option	Description
Refresh	Refresh the list of monitored domain controllers.
Add	Install the Active Directory Health Analyzer agent. See Installing Active Directory Health Analyzer agents. If you want to add more monitored domain controllers, see Adding monitored domain controllers.
Properties	View details about the selected domain controller, including which server in the agent pool is monitoring the selected domain controller.
Remediations	Add, edit, or delete remediation actions.
Settings	Enable, disable, and edit data collectors and alerts for a one or all monitored domain controllers, domains, forests or sites. See Managing data collectors, Setting data collectors, Setting an authoritative RODC, and see Setting alerts. Manage Active Directory Health templates. See Active Directory Health Templates. Enable or disable purging and archiving of the alerts collected by the Active Directory Health Analyzer. See Purging and archiving alert history. Enable or disable purging and archiving of data collected by the Active Directory Health Analyzer. See Purging and archiving Active Directory Health Analyzer data.
Notifications	Add, edit, or remove Active Directory Health Analyzer notifications.
Limiter	Enable, disable, and edit time thresholds for notifications.
Remove	Remove the Active Directory Health Analyzer agent from selected domain controllers or remove the domain controller from being monitored by the agent pool.
Tasks	Manage the tasks that pertain to the monitored domain controllers. See Managing tasks.

Adding monitored domain controllers

If you want to add more domain controllers, you can use the Add Agent wizard where you can add a standalone agent to monitor a single domain controller. See Installing Active Directory Health Analyzer agents.

If you have a pool of agents, you can easily add more unmonitored domain controllers to be monitored by the agent pool.


	NOTE: To see the list of unmonitored domain controllers, you must select the Display unmonitored domain controllers in the tree view check box in user options. See Setting Active Directory Health Analyzer options.

To add more monitored domain controllers

Select Active Directory Health | Analyze.

Expand Domains in the tree.

Expand the domain the holds the domain controllers you want to add.

Expand Unmonitored.

Select the domain controller to add.

Click Add Domain Controller.

Click Yes.

Click Refresh.