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Hello;

I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for how I might be able to test several AD Domains and show the results in Xymon?  One of my AD domains became unresponsive today due to DNS (not Microsoft DNS) and the delay in notifying us caused lots of heartache.

I did see Buchan's OpenLDAP tests, not sure if that is the right way to go, or even if it will work.

Thanks,

.vp

On Monday, 28 June 2010 20:40:42 user-ddebaeecde97@xymon.invalid wrote:

Do you already have the basic ldap monitor in bb-bet working?

Shouldn't you monitor this DNS then?

My OpenLDAP monitor is specific to OpenLDAP, for monitoring replication and 
performance, which aren't applicable to AD.

I note that AD is a very broad term covering many services on many protocols 
(LDAP, Kerberos, NTP/SNTP, DNS, DHCP, CIFS etc. etc.).

Regards,
Buchan

VP, there are, as mentioned by Buchan, many services and such to monitor in an Active Directory environment. I do not know what all the Xymon built-in DNS check does, but if you need more I'd check out DNSLINT. You can run it with a command line of "DNSLINT.EXE /ql autocreate" on a Windows 2003 server and it will generate a text file showing you an example of the kind of queries you can perform with it. You can also run it with "/ad" and it will perform tests specific to an Active Directory DNS server.

Ray

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Hello;

I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for how I might be able to test several AD Domains and show the results in Xymon?  One of my AD domains became unresponsive today due to DNS (not Microsoft DNS) and the delay in notifying us caused lots of heartache.

I did see Buchan's OpenLDAP tests, not sure if that is the right way to go, or even if it will work.

Thanks,

.vp

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Hello ".vp"

Some time ago I posted to the shire the VB script I use to run DcDiag and NetDiag on my 2003 servers. 2008 servers only have DcDiag with the NetDiag functions built in so the script needs an update. The only problem I have come across is I have missed a failed fsr system. 

Regards
Graeme

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Hello;

I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for how I might be able to test several AD Domains and show the results in Xymon?  One of my AD domains became unresponsive today due to DNS (not Microsoft DNS) and the delay in notifying us caused lots of heartache.

I did see Buchan's OpenLDAP tests, not sure if that is the right way to go, or even if it will work.

Thanks,

.vp

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I am neither aware of a basic ldap monitor, or know what bb-bet is :-(

I intend to also monitor that.

Thanks,

.vp  (Vadim Pushkin)