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Active Administrator 8.5 - Release Notes

Updating audit agents

To collect data on a computer, you must install and activate the audit agent. A wizard guides you through installing the audit agent.

To update audit agents
1
Select Auditing & Alerting | Agents.
2
To update selected domain controller(s), select More | Update.
–OR-
To update all listed domain controllers, select More | Update All.
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NOTE: You may need to refresh the audit agents to correct the display. Click Refresh or select domain controllers, and click Refresh Selected.

Switching to Active Directory Health

The Active Directory® Health module incorporates key features from Quest® Directory Analyzer and Directory Troubleshooter. If you are a current user of Directory Analyzer and Directory Troubleshooter, you can switch over to Active Directory Health gradually, or right away. See the Quest® Active Administrator® User Guide for detailed instructions.

To switch gradually
1
Deploy at least two agents into the Active Directory Health agent pool and add a few domain controllers to monitor.
2
Stop, but do not uninstall yet, the old Directory Analyzer agent running on the domain controllers you just added.
3
Test these domain controllers in Active Directory Health.
4
If everything looks good, uninstall the old Directory Analyzer agents on the monitored domain controllers.
5
Add a few more domain controllers to the list of monitored domain controllers.
6
Test these domain controllers in Active Directory Health.
7
If everything looks good, uninstall the old Directory Analyzer agents on the monitored domain controllers.
8
Repeat steps 5 through 7 until all of your domain controllers are monitored by the Active Directory Health Agent pool.
To switch right away
1
Deploy the number of required agents and add the domain controllers.
2
Shut down the old Directory Analyzer agents.
3
Test Active Directory Health for a period of time.
4
Remove the old Directory Analyzer agents.

More resources

Additional information is available from the following:

•
Online product documentation (https://support.quest.com/active-administrator/8.5/release-notes-guides)
•
The Active Administrator Community (https://www.quest.com/community/products/active-administrator)

Globalization

This section contains information about installing and operating this product in non-English configurations, such as those needed by customers outside of North America. This section does not replace the materials about supported platforms and configurations found elsewhere in the product documentation.

This release is Unicode-enabled and supports any character set. In this release, all product components should be configured to use the same or compatible character encodings and should be installed to use the same locale and regional options. This release is targeted to support operations in the following regions: North America, Western Europe and Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Far-East Asia, Japan.

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