Active Administrator 8.7 - User Guide

Analyzing Active Directory health

Analyzing Active Directory health

The Active Directory Health Analyzer displays read-only real-time data about forests, sites, domains and domain controllers so you can monitor the health of your organization. The data on the screen you are viewing is refreshed automatically every minute by default. You also can refresh the data manually by clicking Refresh.

NOTE:   • The Active Directory Health Analyzer agent must be monitoring at least one domain controller to view objects in the Active Directory Health Analyzer tree. See Managing monitored domain controllers and Installing Active Directory Health Analyzer agents. • The Active Directory Health Analyzer agent sends data every five minutes to the Active Administrator® database. When a data collector falls out of range, data is sent every 30 seconds to the database. You can adjust the automatic refresh rate from 30 to 3600 seconds or turn off the automatic refresh. If you turn off the automatic refresh, you can refresh the screens manually. See Setting Active Directory Health Analyzer options. • By default, the Active Directory Health Analyzer screens are cached. As you view more and more screens on multiple domain controllers, more memory is consumed. To clear the cache, you must restart Active Administrator. You can turn off the cache, but the screens are not saved as you navigate from screen to screen. See Setting Active Directory Health Analyzer options.

Topics 

•	Managing the Active Directory Health Analyzer tree

•	Using the analyzer pages

•	Analyzing health of all domain controllers

•	Analyzing health of a selected domain controller

•	Analyzing health of all domains

•	Analyzing health of a selected domain

•	Analyzing health of all sites

•	Analyzing health of a selected site

•	Analyzing the health of a forest

Managing the Active Directory Health Analyzer tree

Managing the Active Directory Health Analyzer tree

The Active Directory Health Analyzer tree displays forests, domains, sites, and domain controllers. By default, unmonitored domain controllers display beneath a selected domain. If you want to see only monitored domain controllers beneath a selected domain, clear the Display unmonitored domain controllers in the tree view check box in Settings | User Options. See Setting Active Directory Health Analyzer options.

NOTE: You receive a message if there are no Active Directory Health Analyzer agents installed or if the selected domain controller is not in a monitored site if site agents are being used. The domain controller is added, but you need to install the Active Directory Health Analyzer agent. See Installing Active Directory Health Analyzer agents.

•	To quickly add a selected unmonitored domain controller to the list of monitored domain controllers, click Add Domain Controller, and click Refresh. See Adding monitored domain controllers.

•	To filter the tree, type in the Filter objects box. The list filters as you type.

•	To refresh the tree, click Refresh.

Using the analyzer pages

Using the analyzer pages

All the analyzer pages have a similar tool bar and shortcut links that help you with analyzing the health of Active Directory.

Tool bar

 

Table 33. Analyzer tool bar

Option	Description
Refresh	Refresh the tree.
Refresh View	Refresh the data on the page.
Alert Details	View the details of a selected alert.
Copy Alert	Copy a selected alert to the clipboard.
Diagnose	Open the Diagnostic Console. See Diagnostic Console. NOTE: Not available for all objects.
Mute	Mute alerts. See Muting alerts. NOTE: Not available for all objects.
Mute History	View the history of mutes. See Viewing mute history.
Schedule Mute	Schedule muting alerts. See To schedule muting alerts.
Mute Schedule	View or modify the schedule of mutes. See To view and modify a scheduled mute..

Shortcut Links

 

Table 34. Analyzer shortcut links

Option	Description
Details	View the details of a selected alert.
Copy	Copy a selected alert to the clipboard.
Create Notification	Create a notification in which the selected alert should be included. See Creating alert notifications.
Add To Notification	Set the notifications in which the selected alert should be included.

Page heading

The top pane on each analyzer page displays the names and numbers of objects and remains in the display when you change tabs. A count of the current alerts, critical and warnings, displays in the upper right-hand corner.

•	To refresh the data on the page, click Refresh.

•	To open the Diagnostic Console, click Diagnose. See Diagnostic Console.

Alerts tab

The Current Alerts tab lists the alerts for the object. A count of the current alerts, critical and warnings, displays in the upper right-hand corner.

•	Alerts are enabled by default. Both alerts and data collectors can be enabled and disabled. See Setting alerts and Setting data collectors.

•	To view details about an alert, click Alert Details or double-click an alert.

You see the alert severity; the alert value; and details about the alert such as domain, the object name, forest name, when the alert started, and the values observed during the alert. Click Copy to copy the alert to the clipboard and click Notifications to see who received the listed notifications.

Analyzing health of all domain controllers

Analyzing health of all domain controllers

You can view information on all monitored domain controllers or a selected monitored domain controller. To view information on a selected domain controller, see Analyzing health of a selected domain controller.

To analyze the health of all monitored domain controllers

1	Select Active Directory Health | Analyzer.

2	Expand the tree, and select Monitored Domain Controllers.

3	Use the tool bar and the tabs to view and manage domain controller health. See Using the analyzer pages.

 

The Summary tab lists all the domain controllers and indicates the number of critical alerts and warnings for each. A vertical bar next to each domain controller indicates its status. A red bar indicates the domain controller has alerts.

▪	To group the list by domain, select Group by domain.

▪	To filter the list of monitored domain controllers, type in the Filter domain controller box. The list filters as you type.

▪	To display the analyzer window for a selected domain controller, double-click a domain controller. See Analyzing health of a selected domain controller.

The Current Alerts tab lists the alerts for all the domain controllers. See Using the analyzer pages.