SiteScope User's Guide


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.