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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