I have a bunch of ldaps tests going to Active Directory servers, but
they're mostly from my Xymon server and not from the end user locations.
If I get a response, it's all good. If it times out several times, someone
gets woken up.
Ralph Mitchell
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Brandon Dale <user-f310199f5cc6@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
I don' think that would be a very good indication of anything useful, you
are better off testing the health of the domain controllers in someway. I
have found the best way to write custom tests for anything windows is to
write them in powershell and use xymonsend.ps1 that comes with the
PowerShell client to send the status messages to xymon.
I was thinking about this yesterday my powershell skills are pretty
limited but it should be fairly easy to write something in powershell to
run dcdiag for each of your domain controllers and look for failed tests or
something similar. Could do something with repadmin results or the Best
Practice Analyzer as well.
Regards,
Brandon
-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Andy Smith
Sent: Wednesday, 26 November 2014 5:22 AM
To: xymon
Subject: [Xymon] AD connectivity / performance test
Hi,
Is anyone carrying out any monitoring (local or remote) of Windows Domain
Controllers? If I were to carry out a remote LDAPS test to retrieve an OU
would the success and connection time for that transaction be a good
indicator of 'user experience' ? I see some monitors on Xymonton looking
at the output from DCDIAG.EXE but these will require BBWin or equivalent to
be installed and I probably wont get
that authorized and VBS is not well known to me anyway.
Thanks
--
Andy