Chapter 19. Monitoring

  • Introduction to Monitoring

  • Selecting and Developing Monitoring Tools

  • Notification Techniques

  • Taking Action

  • A Sample Directory Monitoring Utility

  • Performance Analysis

  • Monitoring Checklist

  • Further Reading

  • Looking Ahead

To deploy a reliable directory service that meets your users' expectations, you need to develop and implement a monitoring strategy. Your monitoring system should help you attain three main goals:

  1. To quickly detect and be able to remedy failures of your directory service

  2. To anticipate and resolve potential problems before they result in failure

  3. To understand the usage patterns of your directory to aid you in capacity planning

In this chapter we first discuss general monitoring principles and the various types of monitoring ...

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