Active Administrator 8.7 - User Guide

Setting startup and recovery options

Setting startup and recovery options

A wizard guides you through modifying the boot configuration for the selected managed domain controller.

To set startup and recovery options

1	Select Active Directory Health | Troubleshooter.

2	Open the Jobs tab.

3	Double-click Set startup and recovery options.

4	On the Welcome page, click Next.

5	Select a domain controller, and click Next.

6	Select the default operating system and system failure options.

NOTE: The settings for system failure apply to the registry of the current operating system for the selected domain controller. If you change the default operating system, the settings for system failure will not apply to the new operating system.

7	Click Next.

8	Select optional settings to configure the server startup for the operating system that you selected on the previous page. The switches are analogous to those used by the BCDEDIT command-line application.

NOTE: If the operating system is not correct, click Back and select the correct operating system. The pages in this wizard are specific to the operating system you selected.

9	Click Next.

10	Choose to enable or disable debugging for the selected operating system.

11	If you enable debugging, choose the type of debugger connection.

12	Click Next.

13	Select options for memory, processors, and virtual address space for the selected operating system.

14	Click Next.

15	Review the current boot configuration to the new boot configuration.

16	Click Finish.

Cleaning up metadata

Cleaning up metadata

When a server is promoted to a domain controller, configuration data is added to Active Directory®. When the domain controller is demoted successfully to a member server, the configuration data is removed. If the demotion is unsuccessful, the configuration data remains. Run this job to remove the configuration data.

To clean up metadata

1	Select Active Directory Health | Troubleshooter.

2	Open the Jobs tab.

3	Double-click Start metadata cleanup.

4	Click Next on the information page.

5	Type the name of the server to clean up.

6	Optionally, type the distinguished name of the server.

Depending on the state of the objects in the directory, the cleanup job may not be able to determine the correct path to the object it will clean up. Entering the distinguished name of the server will increase the success of the cleanup job.

7	Click Next.

8	Review the settings.

9	Click Finish.

Running online defrag

Running online defrag

To optimize the Active Directory® database, periodically run online defragmentation to redistribute data and free disk space for the database to use. The size of the database does not shrink. Optionally, you can run garbage collection prior to online defragmentation to remove tombstones, which are remains of objects that were deleted, and to delete unnecessary log files.

To start online defrag

1	Select Active Directory Health | Troubleshooter.

2	Open the Jobs tab.

3	Double-click Start online defrag.

4	Double-click the target to add it to the lower pane.

▪	Select a forest to run the job on all domain controllers in the forest.

▪	Select a domain to run the job on all domain controllers in the domain.

5	Click Next.

6	Select to run online defragmentation with or without garbage collection.

7	Click Next.

8	Review the settings.

9	Click Finish.

Replicating Active Directory

Replicating Active Directory

The Replication View provides valuable information about the two domain controllers selected for data replication. The information consists of the immediate replication partners for the target server and the recommended replication path between the two servers. From the Replication View, you can also initiate an end-to-end data replication for these domain controllers.

To replicate Active Directory

1	Select Active Directory Health | Troubleshooter.

2	Open the Troubleshooting tab.

3	Double-click

4	Replication view.

5	Type a name and an optional description for the replication.

The name you enter displays in the tree under Replication View so you can rerun the replication. If you have several replications created, the name helps you select the desired replication.

6	Click Browse to locate the source domain controller.

7	Click Browse to locate the target domain controller.

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Click OK.

9	Expand Replication view, and select the replication.

The Replication view displays the source and target domain controllers, the shared naming contexts for the two servers, and the target’s immediate replication partners.

10	Select the naming contexts.

For a path to exist between two servers, you must select at least one shared naming context. All of the shared naming context(s) are selected by default.

The Recommended Replication Path list displays the source and target servers for each naming context. Selecting/unselecting naming contexts show/hide pairs in the Recommended replication path list.

11	To replicate a pair, right-click the pair, and select Replicate now.

The status changes to Replicated.

12	To view details on the replications, click .

This list shows the immediate replication partners for the target server grouped by naming context. Each server in the list will have an entry for the selected naming context, containing the following information for each partner:

▪	Last attempt: date and time when the last replication was attempted

▪	Last result: results of the last replication process

▪	Last success: date and time of the last successful replication

▪	Consecutive failures: number of consecutive failures encountered during the last replication session

▪	Current USN: current Update Sequence Number (USN)

13	To return to the replication pairs, click .

14	To view objects and attributes that were not replicated, right-click the replication pair, and select

15	Show unreplicated changes.

The Unreplicated changes window displays the source and target servers, the selected naming context, unreplicated objects, and unreplicated attributes for the selected object.

▪	To filter the list of unreplicated objects, start typing in the Filter objects box. The display updates as you type.

▪	To view attribute values for a selected object, click Show values.

16	Click OK to return to the main display.