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Active Administrator 8.6 - Web Console User Guide

Active Administrator Web Console Overview Active Directory Health Alerts 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 tests Domain tests Domain controller tests Site tests
Active Directory Topology Reports Network Operations Center

Viewing operations summary

To view the operations summary
1
Open the Web Console. See Opening the Web Console.
2
Click NOC View.
3
Click Summary, if necessary.
The Summary page is divided into three sections: Summary, Alerts, and Domains.
Summary
The Summary area displays a summary of the forests, domains, sites, and domain controllers.
 
Table 1. Summary area
Object
Description

Forests

Number of forests being monitored.

Domains

Number of domains in all forests, including domains not being monitored.

Domain controllers

Number of domain controllers in all forests, including domain controllers not being monitored.

Agents

Number of installed agents.

Monitored DCs

Number of monitored domain controllers.

Global catalog servers

Number of global catalog servers in all domains.

RODCs

Number of read-only domain controllers (RODCs) in all domains.

Sites

Number of sites in all forests.

Bridgehead servers

Number of bridgehead servers in all sites.

Unmonitored DCs

Number of unmonitored domain controllers.

All agents running

All schema versions consistent

All schema masters consistent

All naming masters consistent

All PDC masters consistent

All infrastructure masters consistent

All RID masters consistent

All functional levels consistent

Indicates the status of the object in all forests and domains. If one object has a problem, the status becomes No.

Alerts summary
The Alerts summary area indicates the total number of active, pending, warning, and critical 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 pending, warning, and critical alerts that were triggered or created during the hour, and the number of active alerts that occurred during the hour.
 
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NOTE: If you want to view alert details for a domain, choose to view domain details for the selected profile. See Adding a new profile. A list of alerts display in the Domain summary area.
Domain summary
The Domain summary area displays information for each domain being monitored by Active Administrator. By default, all domains are displayed in summary tiles. You also can choose to display the details of each domain, which includes the list of alerts for the domain.
The summary 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. The maximum number of tiles per page is dependent on the width of the window. If there are more tiles than can display in the window, the tiles will rotate at the rate set in settings for the selected profile. See Adding a new profile.
If you choose to display domain details for the selected profile, only one domain displays at a time. A list of active alerts displays below the domain details. To display another domain, choose from the drop-down menu. If rotation is enabled, the display automatically rotates to the next domain at the specified rate. See Adding a new profile.
 
Table 2. Domain details
Object
Description

Domain

The selected domain. To display another domain, choose from the drop-down menu. If rotation is enabled, the display automatically rotates to the next domain at the specified rate. See Adding a new profile.

Domain controllers

Number of domain controllers in each domain, including domain controllers not being monitored.

Global catalog servers

Number of monitored global catalog servers in each domain.

RODCs

Number of monitored read-only domain controllers (RODCs) in each domain.

Functional level

The Active Directory® domain functional level.

PDC owner

Owner of the primary domain controller (PDC) Flexible Single Master Operation (FSMO) role.

RID master

Owner of the relative identifier (RID) FSMO role.

Infrastructure master

Owner of the infrastructure FSMO role.

Operations master consistent

Indicates if all the domain controllers report the same operation masters.

Functional level consistent

Indicates if all the domain controllers report the same functional level.

Viewing topology

To view the topology diagram
1
Open the Web Console. See Opening the Web Console.
2
Click NOC View | Topology.
3
Select a profile.
 
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NOTE: If the selected profile does not have a diagram, click Create Diagram to create a diagram. See Adding a new diagram.
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In the Displayed diagram list, select the diagram to display.
 
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TIP: Click Auto Rotate Layout to automatically switch between the domain and site diagrams.
NOTE: If Display alert list is selected for the profile, the alert list displays at the bottom of the screen. The alert list is refreshed at the rate set for the profile. See Adding a new profile.
NOTE: If Display nodes status is selected for the profile, the alert severity is indicated by color in the node diagram. See Adding a new profile.
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Use the tool bar to customize the layout.
 
Table 3. Topology tool bar
Option
Description

Print

Print the topology diagram.

Zoom to Fit

Zoom the diagram to fit the screen vertically. If the diagram fits the screen vertically, zooms the diagram to fit the screen horizontally.

Save Layout

Save the layout for the selected forest topology diagram. See Customizing the topology layout.

Change Diagrams

Create a new diagram, and edit or delete a selected topology diagram. See Managing diagrams.

Edit Layout

Edit the layout for the selected forest topology diagram. See Customizing the topology layout.

Auto Rotate Layout

Rotate among diagrams according to the specified rotate rate. See Adding a new profile.

Info

View details about the selected domain controller. Details include general information about the domain controller, operating system details, memory size and available space, disk size and available space, network adapters, and alerts.

NOTE: Info is enabled only if Auto Rotate Layout is not selected.

Help

Displays keyboard shortcuts available on desktop computers.

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Use Ctrl + to Zoom in
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Use Ctrl - to Zoom out
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Use Ctrl and the mouse wheel to zoom the diagram in and out
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Use Shift and the mouse wheel to move the diagram around

Viewing active alerts

Active Directory Health Analyzer alerts have two levels of severity: warning and critical. As a situation escalates, a warning alert is generated, indicating that a lower priority threshold has been violated. As the severity of the error increases, a critical alert is generated, indicating that the higher priority threshold has been exceeded. A number of attributes can be customized for each of these levels, including the threshold value, duration before an alert occurs and duration before an alert clears. See the Active Directory Health chapter in the Quest® Active Administrator® User Guide.

To view active alerts
1
Open the Web Console. See Opening the Web Console.
2
Click NOC View | Active Alerts.
3
Select a profile.
The Active Alerts page displays a tally of the Active Alerts and their severity at the top of the page.
Below the alert tally, one active alert summary displays at a time.The display rotates through the active alerts at the specified rate for the selected profile. See Adding a new profile.
Viewing alert details
To view details of the alert that is currently displayed, click View Details. Use the tabs to view information about the alert.
 
Table 4. View Details tabs
Tab
Description

General

Displays much of the same information that you see in the alert summary. The list of Observed Values shows the number of times the alert was triggered.

Details

Provides more information to help you troubleshoot the problem.

Notifications

Displays the notifications sent for the alert

Remediation Actions

Displays a list of actions that run when an alert reached its critical threshold. See Managing the Remediation Library in the in the Active Administrator User Guide.

At the bottom of the page is a list of all the active alerts. To sort the list, click in a column heading.
 
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NOTE: If the alert filter is enabled for the selected profile, the list of active alerts is filtered based on the settings selected. The list may be filtered by severity, domain, source, and date or date range. See Adding a new profile.

Viewing domain controllers

The Domain Controllers tab displays information about the domain controllers on which the Active Directory Health Analyzer agent is installed. See Installing Active Directory Health Analyzer agents in the Quest® Active Administrator® User Guide.

To view domain controllers
1
Open the Web Console. See Opening the Web Console.
2
Click NOC View | Domain Controllers.
3
Select a profile.
The specified number of domain controller cards display per page and rotate at the specified rate for the selected profile. See Adding a new profile.
 
Table 5. Domain Controller information
Field
Description

Domain

Name of the domain in which the domain controller resides

Site

Name of the site in which the domain controller resides

Forest

Name of the forest in which the domain resides

OS version

Version of the operating system

System up time

Duration of time the domain controller has been running

Read only DC

Indicates if the domain controller is a read-only domain controller (RODC)

Global catalog

Indicates if the domain controller is a global catalog server

Monitored by

Name of the computer with the agent that is monitoring the selected domain controller

Available RIDs

Number of available relative IDs (RIDs) in the domain

SysVol Shared

Indicates if the SysVol folder is shared

NetLogon Shared

Indicates if the NetLogon share is enabled

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