Dissecting System Center: New Active Directory Management Pack Available

The March 2012 revision of the Monitoring Pack for Active Directory includes the following changes:

Corrected some Publisher names (for example, changed from PublisherName=KDC to PublisherName=Microsoft-Windows-Kerberos-Key-Distribution-Center)
Updated rules to generate Alerts and not only go to the Event Viewer
Removed unnecessary check for Event Source Name for all NTDS rules (for example, removed EventSourceName=”NTDS General”)
Corrected event parameter validation
Updated queries to search for correct event IDs
Fixed spelling errors
Added missing descriptions to rules
Fixed problems with Health Monitoring scripts
Removed user name checks from Userenv rules

Feature Summary

Replication
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
Domain Controller Locator (DCLocator)
Trusts
Net Logon service
File Replication Service (FRS)
Intersite Messaging service
Windows Time service
Key Distribution Center (KDC)
Service availability monitoring
Key performance data collection
Comprehensive reports, including reports about service availability and service health, plus reports that you can use for capacity planning

Release History

3/30/2012 - Updated release, version 6.0.7822.0, with fixes to bugs reported by customers.
10/6/2011 - Updated release, version 6.0.7670.0, with fixes to bugs reported by customers and architectural issues to facilitate future Operations Manager's releases
11/3/2009 - Updated release, version 6.0.7065.0, with added Windows Server 2008 R2 support
11/7/2008 - Initial release for 2000/2003/2008, version 6.0.6452.0
03/26/2008 - QFE, version 6.0.6278.10
03/17/2008 - QFE, version 6.0.6278.3
1/15/2008 - Updated Guide - same version
3/23/2007 - Initial Release, version 6.0.5000.0

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