Active Administrator 8.8.1 - User Guide

Adding monitored domain controllers

Adding monitored domain controllers

If you want to add more domain controllers, you can use the Add Agent wizard where you can add a standalone agent to monitor a single domain controller. See Installing Active Directory Health Analyzer agents.

If you have a pool of agents, you can easily add more unmonitored domain controllers to be monitored by the agent pool.

NOTE: To see the list of unmonitored domain controllers, you must select the Display unmonitored domain controllers in the tree view check box in user options. See Setting Active Directory Health Analyzer options.

To add more monitored domain controllers

1	Select Active Directory Health | Analyze.

2	Expand Domains in the tree.

3	Expand the domain the holds the domain controllers you want to add.

4	Expand Unmonitored.

5	Select the domain controller to add.

6	Click Add Domain Controller.

7	Click Yes.

8	Click Refresh.

Managing data collectors

Managing data collectors

The Active Directory Health Analyzer module monitors domain controllers and presents data for you to troubleshoot issues. The data collectors are used to display information on the Details tabs and to trigger alerts.

Topics 

•	Setting permissions for data collectors

•	Setting data collectors

•	Adding performance counter data collectors

•	Adding Windows Services data collectors

•	Adding Event Log data collectors

•	Setting an authoritative RODC

•	Purging and archiving Active Directory Health Analyzer data

Setting permissions for data collectors

Setting permissions for data collectors

For the Active Directory Health Analyzer to acquire the necessary data, certain permissions and access are required. To capture all data collectors accessible by the Active Directory Health Analyzer:

•	The startup account for the Active Directory Health Analyzer agent must:

▪	have domain user and domain administrative privileges;

▪	be a member of the Distributed COM Users group; and

▪	be a member of the Performance Logs user group.

▪	The target server must have WMI remote access enabled.

To see the specific requirements for each individual data collector, see the Alerts Appendix.

Setting data collectors

Setting data collectors

By default, all data collectors are enabled. You can customize the scope of data collection to suit your environment. You can:

•	Enable/disable individual data collectors

•	Enable/disable debugging for troubleshooting purposes

•	Enable/disable trending for those data collectors that support trending

•	Adjust the duration and/or sample rates

You can save the data collector settings for a domain controller, domain, forest, or site as a template that can be applied to other domain controllers, domains, forests, or sites.

To set data collectors

1	Select Active Directory Health | Agents.

2	Select the Monitored Domain Controllers tab.

3	Select a domain controller.

4	Select Settings | Domain Controllers, Domain, Forest, or Site.

5	Select Data Collectors.

6	Select the data collector category to modify.

7	If there is more than one data collector listed, double-click the data collector.

You can filter the list by typing in the Filter data collector box. The list filters as you type.

8	Modify the settings.

▪	Only enable debugging if you need to troubleshoot the data collector.

▪	If the data collector does not support trending, the option is disabled.

▪	To reset the alert to the original default settings, click Reset.

 

IMPORTANT: For the RODC allowed password data collectors, you must set at least one authoritative Read-only domain controller (RODC). See Setting an authoritative RODC. For the Domain FSMO role placement data collector, you must select at least one FSMO role validation option to enable the data collector.

9	To apply the changes only to the selected domain controller, click Apply.

-OR-

To apply the changes to all managed domain controllers, click Apply to All.

10	Click Yes to confirm.

NOTE: If you changed the interval, duration, or sample rate to a value outside the recommended settings, you see a warning message. Click Yes to continue.

11	Optionally, click Save as Template to save all of the data collector settings and alert settings for this domain controller, domain, forest, or site as a template that can be applied to other Active Directory objects. For more information, see Active Directory Health Templates.