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Active Administrator 8.6.3 - Web Console User Guide

Table of Contents

Active Administrator Web Console Overview

About the Web Console Configuring the web server Opening the Web Console Using the Active Administrator dashboard

Displaying the dashboard Arranging the dashboard panels Setting refresh and rotation Configuring dashboard panels

Using the help menu

Active Directory Health

About Active Directory Health Using the Active Directory Health landing page Analyzing health of a domain controller Analyzing health of a domain Analyzing health of a site Analyzing the health of a forest

Viewing alerts Viewing alert details Adding an alert to notifications Creating a notification for an alert Viewing alert history

Filtering alert history

Generating an alert history report Muting alerts Clearing mutes Viewing mute history

About alert notifications Viewing alert notifications Creating alert notifications Pushing alerts to System Center Operations Manager Limiting notifications

Active Directory Health Check

Using the Health Check landing page Creating a Health Check Setting options for Health Check tests Purging Health Check History Health check tests

Forest details Naming operations master inconsistent Naming operations master is not a global catalog server Naming operations master not responding Schema operations master inconsistent Schema operations master not responding Schema version inconsistent

Conflict encountered during replication DC replication latency DNS domain missing SRV records Domain details FSMO placement GC replication latency Infrastructure master host GC Infrastructure master not responding Infrastructure operations master inconsistent Objects exist in the Lost and Found PDC master not responding RID master not responding RID operations master inconsistent Root PDC time source missing

Domain controller tests

Active Directory Domain Service Cache copy read hits Compare SRV DNS records with Netlogon.dns file Consecutive replication failures threshold exceeded CPU processor time DC replication latency DFS namespace service DFS replication service DFSRS % processor time DFSRS conflict area disk space DFSRS conflict files generated DFSRS private bytes DFSRS RDC is not enabled DFSRS sharing violation DFSRS staged file age DFSRS staging area disk space DFSRS USN records accepted DFSRS working set Domain controller relative identifier (RID) Domain controller responsive Domain controller time synchronization File replication (NTFRS) staging space free in kilobytes GC replication latency Group policy object inconsistent Installed applications Installed updates Invalid primary DNS domain controller IP address Invalid secondary DNS domain controller IP address Kerberos Key Distribution Center service LDAP response time Logic disk details LSASS % processor time LSASS private bytes LSASS working set Memory details Memory page faults a second Missing domain controller SRV DNS record NetLogon folder shared NetLogon Windows service Network adapter information NTDS DRA inbound properties filtered a second NTDS LDAP searches a second NTDS LDAP writes a second Operating system details Primary DNS resolver not responding Secondary DNS resolver not responding Server sessions SysVol details SysVol folder shared Windows Time service

No authority in site to resolve universal group memberships Inter-site replication manager Inter-site replication topology generation disabled Intra-site replication topology generation disabled Morphed directories exist in site Site details Too few global catalog servers in site

Active Directory Topology

Viewing Active Directory forest topology Viewing alerts Customizing the topology layout

Running reports Active Directory Health reports Active Directory Infrastructure reports DNS reports Security reports Certificates reports Server configuration report

Network Operations Center

Using the Network Operations Center

Viewing operations summary Viewing topology Viewing active alerts Viewing domain controllers

Managing diagrams

Adding a new diagram Editing a diagram Deleting a diagram

Managing profiles

Adding a new profile Editing profile settings Deleting a profile

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