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Foglight for Active Directory 6.0.0 - User Guide

Navigation basics Exploring Foglight for Active Directory dashboards Managing Active Directory agents Reporting on your Active Directory enterprise Foglight for Active Directory views
Forest views Domain views Site views Domain Controller views Description of embedded views
Address Book view Agent State view Asynchronous Thread Queue view Core Services view Database Access view Database Cache view Database Log Access view Database Performance Health view Defragmentation Tasks view DFS Namespace Service API Queue view DFS Namespace Service API Requests view DFS Namespace Service Referrals view DFS Replicated Folders view DFS Replication Connections view DFS Replication Service Volumes view DFS-R Performance Health view Directory Replication Inbound view Directory Replication Outbound view Directory Replication Sync view Directory Replication USN view Directory Services General view Directory Services Performance Health view Directory Services Reads view Directory Services Searches view Directory Services Writes view Domain Controller Details view Domain Controllers view FileReplicaConn Authentications/Bindings view FileReplicaConn Change Orders view FileReplicaConn Fetch view FileReplicaSet Authentications/Bindings view FileReplicaSet Change Orders view FileReplicaSet DS Communications view FileReplicaSet Files view FileReplicaSet Local Change Orders view FileReplicaSet Packets view FileReplicaSet Remote Change Orders view FRS Performance Health view FRS Replica Sets view FRS Staging Files view FSMO Roles view (Domain) FSMO Roles view (Forest) Host Monitor view Inter-Site Transports view Inventory By Category view IP Subnets view Key Distribution Center view LDAP view Memory view Network view Processor view Replication Performance Health view Resource Utilization view Security Accounts Manager view Server Health view Statistics view Storage view Summary and Resource Information view Top AD Metrics view Top 3 Consumers view Top 3 CPU Consumers view Top 3 DS Directory Reads/sec view Top 3 LDAP Bind Times view Top 3 Memory Consumers view Top 3 Network Consumers view Top 3 Replication Queue Length view Top 3 Storage Consumers view Trusts view USN Records view
Foglight for Active Directory rules Running diagnostic tests Managing Active Directory metrics

Managing Active Directory agents

The Active Directory agents collect data from remote Active Directory® domain controllers, which is then used to populate the health and performance metrics presented throughout Foglight for Active Directory dashboards and views.

The Foglight for Active Directory provides an additional dashboard that can be used to manage Active Directory agent instances. Therefore, the Active Directory agent instances can be created and managed using one of the following dashboards:

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Agent Status dashboard (Dashboards > Administration > Agents > Agent Status)
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Active Directory Environment dashboard > Administration tab (Dashboards > Active Directory Environment > Administration tab)

This section describes the Deploy Agent Package dialog, Agent Setup wizard which is used to add and configure new Active Directory agents and the Agent Management view which is populated with information about each Active Directory agent instance. It also provides a description of the Active Directory agent properties used to connect to the target server from which data is to be collected.

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Agent Status dashboard
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Active Directory/Certificate Authority agent management
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Active Directory agent properties

Agent Status dashboard

The Agent Status dashboard allows you to deploy agent packages and create agent instances one host at a time. Once an agent is created, use this dashboard to view agent information and edit the properties of one or more agents.

For more information about using the Agent Status dashboard to create and manage agent instances, see “Deploying agent packages to monitored hosts” in the Foglight Administration and Configuration Help.

Active Directory/Certificate Authority agent management

The Active Directory Environment dashboard > Administration tab allows you to create agent instances for one or more servers at a time, activate or deactivate Active Directory agents or Certificate Authority agents, and start and stop collecting data.

The Administration tab consists of the following components:

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Tasks list
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Agent Management view

Tasks list

The Tasks list, in the upper left corner of the view, contains a list of tasks that can be performed from this view.

Figure 16. Task list

Clicking the Script for configuring the Active Directory settings link on this list downloads and runs a script that automatically configures the Domain Controllers and WinRM. For me ore information, see the readme.txt file included in the script ZIP file.

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