Active Administrator 8.7 - User Guide

DNS drilldown

DNS drilldown

The Domain Naming System (DNS) drilldown indicates whether the DNS entries are registered by the currently connected domain controller, registered by another domain controller in the forest, or not registered at all.

To display the DNS drilldown

•	Click (DNS)

The DNS drilldown displays the following information.

 

Table 141. DNS drilldown

Column	Description
Record	The name of the DNS record.
Registration Status	Whether the DNS record is registered or not.

LSASS drilldown

LSASS drilldown

The Local Security Authority Subsystem (LSASS) drilldown displays information on database traffic and authentication requests.

To display the LSASS drilldown

•	Click (LSASS)

The LSASS drilldown displays the following information in graphs:

 

Table 142. LSASS drilldown

Graph	Description
LSASS CPU Usage	The percentage of the CPU used by the LSASS process.
LSASS I/O Activity	How many bytes have been read from or written to the Active Directory database by the LSASS process. Read activity is shown in orange. Write activity is shown in blue.
Authentications	The number of NTLM NT Lan Manager Authentications and Kerberos Authentications per second being handled by the currently connected domain controller. NTLM Authentications are shown in orange and Kerberos Authentications are shown in blue.
Directory Activity	The number of directory read and write operations per second occurring on this domain controller. Read activity is shown in orange, and write activity is shown in blue.

LDAP drilldown

LDAP drilldown

The LDAP drilldown displays detailed information regarding communications between clients and the domain controller.

To display the LDAP drilldown

•	Click (LDAP)

The LDAP drilldown displays the following graphs:

 

Table 143. LDAP Drilldown

Graph	Description
LDAP Client Sessions	The number of clients that currently have open LDAP sessions with this domain controller.
LDAP Bind Time	The amount of time necessary to perform the last LDAP bind. Consistently high values might indicate a hardware or networking problem.
Directory Searches Per Second	The number of directory searches that are being run per second on this domain controller.
LDAP Search Time	The time taken for a simple LDAP search against the domain controller.

FSMO Roles drilldown

FSMO Roles drilldown

The Flexible Single-Master Operation (FSMO) Roles drilldown indicates which domain controller owns each FSMO role. It also indicates which domain controller is the Global Catalog (GC) server.

To display the FSMO Roles drilldown

•	Click (FSMO Roles)

 

NOTE: By default, the FSMO Roles drilldown collects only the FSMO roles for the domain where the domain controller is located. Select Collect FSMO role holders from other domains to collect all FSMO roles in the forest. If selected, this check box is applied to all current connections as well as new future connections.

The FSMO Roles drilldown displays the following information.

 

Table 144. FSMO Roles Drilldown

Column	Description
FSMO Role	The five main roles a server can fulfill. These include Domain Naming Master, Schema Master, Infrastructure Master, PDC Emulator, and RID Server. Global Catalog and Intersite Topology Generator are not FSMO roles; they are listed here as extra information.
Domain Controller	The network name of the computer that fulfills the associated FSMO role.
Domain	The name of the domain to which the computer belongs.
Site	The site to which the computer belongs.
IP Address	The IP address of the computer.