[Xymon] AD connectivity / performance test

[Ralph Mitchell]

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 <bdale at kitchen-net.com.au>
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
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