Using the Active Directory Health landing page
Once you have installed at least one Analyzer agent, the Active Directory Health landing page displays summary information for forests, domains, sites, domain controllers, and alerts. Tiles display summary information for each domain that is configured in Active Administrator®.
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Select Monitor | Active Directory Health. |
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Open the Summary tab, if necessary. |
The Summary area displays a summary of the forests, domains, sites, and domain controllers.
The Alerts Summary area indicates the total number of critical and warning alerts for the forest. The chart shows alert history over the past 12 hours. If you pause the cursor over the graph, you can view the number of critical, and warning alerts that were triggered or created during the hour, and the number of active alerts that occurred during the hour.
The Summary of Domains area displays details for each domain being monitored by Active Administrator. The tile for each domain indicates the total number of critical and warning alerts; the total number of domain controllers, global catalog servers, and read-only domain controllers; and the functional level of the domain.
Analyzing health of a domain controller
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Select Monitor | Active Directory Health. |
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Open the Analyzer tab. |
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Select the domain controller from the Monitored Object list. |
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NOTE: A message displays if there is no data to display. There may be a pending workload evaluation or the system is waiting on data from the Active Directory Health Analyzer agent. Check to see if the Analyzer agent is running. See Managing Active Directory Health Analyzer agents in the Quest® Active Administrator® User Guide.
If there is no data because the domain controller is not being monitored, you need to install the agent. See Installing Active Directory Health Analyzer agents in the Quest® Active Administrator® User Guide. Data collectors provide the input to the various tabs. Some data collectors can be enabled or disabled. See Managing data collectors in the Quest® Active Administrator® User Guide. If you do not see the corresponding data, make sure the data collector is enabled and the necessary permissions are set. To check the required minimum permissions, see the Alerts Appendix in the Quest® Active Administrator® User Guide. |
The Domain Controller summary area displays the name of the domain controller, the number of active alerts for the domain controller, and general information about the domain controller.
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Indicates if the domain controller is a read-only domain controller (RODC) | |
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Indicates if the domain controller is a global catalog server | |
The Performance Overview tab displays the data collected in the indicated time frame for the selected monitored domain controller via the enabled Performance Counters data collectors.
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To view more detail, click Show Trends. |
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To hide the detail, click Hide Trends. |
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To refresh the display, click Refresh. |
The Services tab displays the status of Windows® services via the enabled Windows Services data collectors. If a service is running, but has stopped at a point in time, that stoppage is indicated with red.
Displays Active Directory® database and SYSVOL disk usage and LDAP response time via the following data collectors:
The number on the tab indicates the number of current alerts on the domain controller. The Domain Controller Alerts tab displays the current alerts for the domain controller. A count of the current alerts, critical and warnings, displays. For each active alert, the severity, alert name, time the alert triggered, the object name, and the description display.
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To refresh the list, click Refresh. |
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To add an alert to notifications, click the Add to Notification button beside the alert. See Adding an alert to notifications. |
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To create a new notification for an alert, click the Create Notification button beside the alert. See Creating a notification for an alert. |
Alerts are enabled by default and correspond to data controllers. Both alerts and data collectors can be enabled and disabled. See Setting alerts and Setting data collectors in the Quest® Active Administrator® User Guide.
The Installed Applications tab has three tabs with numbers that indicate the number of installed, added, or removed applications on the selected monitored domain controller.
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To refresh the list, click Refresh. |
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To refresh the list, click Refresh. |
Analyzing health of a domain
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Select Monitor | Active Directory Health. |
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Select the domain from the Monitored Object list. |
The Domain summary area displays the name of the domain, the number of active alerts for the domain, and general information about the domain.
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To filter the list of domain controllers, type in the Filter domain controllers box. The list filters as you type. |
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To refresh the tree, click Refresh. |
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To filter the list, type in the Filter domain controllers box. The list filters as you type. |
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To refresh the list, click Refresh. |
The number on the tab indicates the number of GC replications. The GC Replication Latency tab lists the replication latency times for the domain controllers and servers hosting the global catalog.
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To filter the list, type in the Filter domain controllers box. The list filters as you type. |
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To refresh the list, click Refresh. |
The number on the tab indicates the number of current alerts on the domain. The Domain Alerts tab displays the current alerts for the domain. A count of the current alerts, critical and warnings, displays. For each active alert, the severity, alert name, time the alert triggered, the object name, and the description display.
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To refresh the list, click Refresh. |
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To add an alert to notifications, click the Add to Notification button beside the alert. See Adding an alert to notifications. |
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To create a new notification for an alert, click the Create Notification button beside the alert. See Creating a notification for an alert. |
Analyzing health of a site
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Select Monitor | Active Directory Health. |
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Open the Analyzer tab. |
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Select the site from the Monitored Object list. |
The Site summary area displays the name of the site, the number of active alerts for the site, and general information about the site.
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Indicates if intersite topology generation is enabled or disabled. | |
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Indicates if intrasite topology generation is enabled or disabled. | |
The number on the tab indicates the total number of managed servers in the site. The Servers tab lists the monitored domain controllers in the selected site and indicates if the domain controller is:
You can filter the list of domain controllers and sort the list.
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To filter the list, type in the Filter servers box. The list filters as you type. |
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To refresh the list, click Refresh. |
The number on the tab indicates the total number of links in the site. The Site Links tab lists the site link name, the site to which the selected site is linked, the relative cost of using the link, as defined by the administrator.
The Schedule column indicates how the inter-site link is connected.
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Always indicates the link is connected all of the time as a schedule is not assigned. |
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Scheduled indicates the link is connected occasionally on a schedule. |
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Disabled indicates the link is never connected. A schedule is assigned to the connection, but there is no scheduled time when the link is connected. |
You can filter the list of domain controllers and sort the list.
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To filter the list, type in the Filter domain controllers box. The list filters as you type. |
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To refresh the list, click Refresh. |
The number on the tab indicates the number of current alerts on the site. The Site Alerts tab displays the current alerts for the site. A count of the current alerts, critical and warnings, displays. For each active alert, the severity, alert name, time the alert triggered, the object name, and the description display.
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To refresh the list, click Refresh. |
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To add an alert to notifications, click the Add to Notification button beside the alert. See Adding an alert to notifications. |
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To create a new notification for an alert, click the Create Notification button beside the alert. See Creating a notification for an alert. |