Active Directory Client Monitoring Configuration

Although monitoring performance of Active Directory services is done by the domain controllers using a variety of measures, sometimes what really matters is how clients perceive the performance of the domain services. To measure that, the Active Directory Management Pack can generate synthetic transactions from selected client systems. These transactions include ADSI bind and search times, LDAP ping and bind times, global catalog search times, and PDC ping and bind times. The clients execute tests and log the results, as well as alert on slow performance.

The Active Directory Server Client object discovery is disabled by default. The object discovery has to be overridden to discover objects that ...

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