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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