Introducing the Active Directory Solution
Mercury Interactive SiteScope Active Directory
Solution Template
To address the needs of Active Directory performance monitoring,
Mercury Interactive offers the Active Directory Solution.
The SiteScope Active Directory Solution provides efficient and thorough monitoring of
domain controller performance, services on which Active Directory depends, and
distributed Active Directory performance.
This solution uses
a solution template you use to rapidly deploy a collection of monitors
configured with default metrics, default thresholds
and proactive tests. These monitoring configurations
have been researched using best practice data and expertise
from various sources.
Note: You must have the applicable SiteScope option license to use
the Active Directory Solution
templates. Contact your Mercury sales representative for more information
about Solution licensing.
The purpose of a solution template is to provide easy-to-use,
comprehensive monitoring without requiring the SiteScope user or the
IT organization to be experts on the application. Benefits of the
Active Directory solution template include:
- Reduces the need for Active Directory performance domain expertise
- Reduces the time to configure and deploy Active Directory monitors
- Helps identify both real-time performance bottlenecks and longer term trends
- Adds no overhead to production systems
The Active Directory Solution template deploys
monitors that target the following aspects of Active Directory performance:
- Domain controller performance
This category refers to the low level health of each domain
controller in the environment. The Active Directory Solution Template
automatically configures
monitors for domain controller health.
- Dependent services
Active Directory depends on several key services.
Without these services, Active Directory can become
unresponsive or fail altogether. The Active Directory Solution
Template automatically configures
monitors for a list of important
services upon which Active Directory performance is dependent.
- Distributed Active Directory Performance
Perhaps the most important aspect and key indicator of Active Directory
performance is how fast Active Directory is replicating changes out to
all domain controllers. The Active Directory Solution Template
automatically configures
monitors for monitoring and testing replication of changes and updates.
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