Overview of the Active Directory Management Pack

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Active Directory Management Pack (ADMP) for MOM 2005 provides a predefined, ready-to-run set of rules, monitoring scripts, and reports that are designed specifically to monitor the performance and availability of Active Directory. ADMP monitors events that are placed in the Application, System, and Directory Service event logs by various Active Directory components and subsystems. ADMP also monitors the overall health of Active Directory and alerts you to critical performance issues.

ADMP provides a complete Active Directory monitoring solution by:

  • Monitoring all aspects of Active Directory health.

  • Monitoring the health of vital processes that Active Directory depends on, including the following:

    • Replication

    • Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

    • Domain controller Locator

    • Trusts

    • Net Logon service

    • File Replication service (FRS)

    • Intersite Messaging service

    • Windows Time service

    • Key Distribution Center (KDC)

  • Monitoring service availability.

  • Collecting key performance data.

  • Providing comprehensive reports, including reports about service availability and service health and reports that can you can use for capacity planning.

By detecting critical events and creating alerts for them, ADMP helps to indicate, correct, and prevent possible Active Directory service outages.

For a technical overview of Active Directory and its components, see the Active Directory Collection in the Windows Server 2003 Technical Reference on the Microsoft Web site at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=25389.