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Foglight for Active Directory 7.3.0 - 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
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Site views

A Site represents a logical grouping of computers within Active Directory® that have reliable connectivity. Active Directory uses the site layout to create the best replication topology for the DCs in the forest. Site topology is not related to the domain hierarchy. That is, a domain can appear in many sites, and a site can contain many domains.

When you know the location of a directory problem, the Site views provide a quick way to get the metrics about the site and DCs in that site.

 
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NOTE: If you create a new site in a monitored domain, to start collecting data about that site, you must restart the monitoring Active Directory agent. If a domain controller is not located in a newly added or removed from your environment, the change is reflected only after the replication process between the associated domain controllers is finished, and the agent is restarted.

To determine the length of time needed to process replications on individual sites, issue the following command:
repadmin /latency <DC_LIST>

For more information, visit http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/library/cc811567(v=ws.10).aspx.

The following views are available to monitor the health of the sites within your Active Directory infrastructure:

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Sites Environment Summary (All Sites) view
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Site Environment Summary view
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Sites Explorer Summary (All Sites) view
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Site Explorer Summary view

Sites Environment Summary (All Sites) view

The Sites Environment Summary (All Sites) view displays a site tile for each site in your Active Directory® environment and provides summary data about the DCs and Global Catalog servers (GCs) within each site. It also displays the number of DCs and GCs in each of the alarm states (fatal, critical and warning) for each site.

Figure 27. Sites Environment Summary (All Sites) view

A site tile displays the following information:

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name of the site
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number of subnets in the site
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number of site alarms in each state
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number of DCs in the site and number of DCs in each alarm state
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number of GCs in the site and number of GCs in each alarm state
How to get here
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From the Foglight navigation panel, select Dashboards > Active Directory > Active Directory Environment.
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From the Monitoring tab, select the Sites tile.
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From the Object Tree view, select Summary.
The Sites Environment Summary (All Sites) view appears in the Object Summary view of the Quick View on the Active Directory Environment dashboard.

Site Environment Summary view

The Site Environment Summary view displays a site tile for the selected site, showing data about the object types within that site and the number of objects in each of the alarm states. In addition to the site tile, this view displays details about the DCs, subnets and transports that make up this site.

Figure 28. Site Environment Summary view

How to get here
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From the Foglight navigation panel, select Dashboards > Active Directory > Active Directory Environment.
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From the Monitoring tab, select the Sites tile.
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From the Object Tree view, select an individual Site object.
The Site Environment Summary view appears in the Object Summary view of the Quick View on the Active Directory Environment dashboard.
 
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NOTE: You can also click a site tile in the Sites Environment Summary (All Sites) view to display this view.
Embedded views

In addition to the site tile and current site alarms, the following embedded views are displayed in the Site Summary:

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Inventory By Category view
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IP Subnets view
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Domain Controller Details view
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Inter-Site Transports view
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Top 3 Consumers view

Sites Explorer Summary (All Sites) view

The Sites Explorer Summary (All Sites) view displays detailed resource metrics and information about the DCs in all of the monitored sites in your Active Directory® environment.

Figure 29. Sites Explorer Summary (All Sites) view

How to get here
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From the Foglight navigation panel, select Dashboards > Active Directory > Active Directory Explorer.
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From the Active Directory Enterprise view (under Dashboards in the navigation panel), select the Sites object container.
The Sites Explorer Summary (All Sites) view appears in the Primary view on the Active Directory Explorer dashboard.
 
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NOTE: You can also click the view in Explorer link on the Sites Environment Summary (All Sites) view.
Embedded views

In addition to the current site alarms, this view is made up of the following embedded views:

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Top 3 CPU Consumers view
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Top 3 Memory Consumers view
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Top 3 Network Consumers view
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Top 3 Storage Consumers view
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Domain Controllers view
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