On Monday, 28 June 2010 20:40:42 wiskbroom at hotmail.com wrote:

Hello;

I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for how I might be able to test several AD Domains and show the results in Xymon?

Do you already have the basic ldap monitor in bb-bet working?

One of my AD domains became unresponsive today due to DNS (not Microsoft DNS) and the delay in notifying us caused lots of heartache.

Shouldn't you monitor this DNS then?

I did see Buchan's OpenLDAP tests, not sure if that is the right way to go, or even if it will work.

My OpenLDAP monitor is specific to OpenLDAP, for monitoring replication and performance, which aren't applicable to AD.

I note that AD is a very broad term covering many services on many protocols (LDAP, Kerberos, NTP/SNTP, DNS, DHCP, CIFS etc. etc.).

Regards, Buchan

VP, there are, as mentioned by Buchan, many services and such to monitor in an Active Directory environment. I do not know what all the Xymon built-in DNS check does, but if you need more I'd check out DNSLINT. You can run it with a command line of "DNSLINT.EXE /ql autocreate" on a Windows 2003 server and it will generate a text file showing you an example of the kind of queries you can perform with it. You can also run it with "/ad" and it will perform tests specific to an Active Directory DNS server.

Ray

-----Original Message----- From: wiskbroom at hotmail.com [mailto:wiskbroom at hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 3:41 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Active Directory Check?

Hello;

I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for how I might be able to test several AD Domains and show the results in Xymon? One of my AD domains became unresponsive today due to DNS (not Microsoft DNS) and the delay in notifying us caused lots of heartache.

I did see Buchan's OpenLDAP tests, not sure if that is the right way to go, or even if it will work.

Thanks,

.vp

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