Enabling Replication Performance Data Collection

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Applies To: Operations Manager 2007

The AD LDS Management Pack monitors all partitions in your environment, including schema partitions, configuration partitions, and all application partitions. Replication monitoring in Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) is performed through the following rules:

  • Replication Performance Collection Helper (Source)

  • Replication Performance Collection Helper (Target)

  • Replication Monitoring (Latency)

  • Replication Monitoring (Update)

  • Replication Change Delay Performance Collection

Configuration

You should create a specific group in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 to use for monitoring replication. Add to that group only a select number of computers that you want to monitor. To learn about creating groups in Operations Manager 2007, see Creating and Managing Groups (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=166047).

Warning

Do not enable client monitoring on all your member servers or desktop client computers running Windows. If you have too many clients running transactions only for the sake of monitoring, you can degrade the performance of your Active Directory deployment.

To perform the procedures in this section, you must be a member of the Operations Manager Administrators group in the Operations console. For more information, see Account Information for Operations Manager 2007 (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=165736).

To add a computer to the AD LDS client perspective monitor

  1. On your management server, open the Operations Console, and then click Authoring.

  2. In the navigation pane, select Monitors in the Management Pack Objects group.

  3. In the Monitors pane on the right, type client perspective in the Look for text box, and then click Find Now.

  4. In the Results window, click Entity Health in Client Perspective, right-click Overrides, click Override the Monitor, and then click For a group.

    Note

    If you do not see the rule, confirm that your scope is set to include Lightweight Directory Service Client Perspective Discovery by clicking Scope in the Operations Console toolbar.

  5. In the Override Properties dialog box, ensure that the Override box that corresponds to Enabled in the Parameter Name column is selected, change Override Value to True, and then click OK.

Replication Performance Collection Helper (Source)

This rule configures the replication partition instance as the source for replication.

To enable the Replication Performance Collection Helper (Source) rule

  1. In the Operations Console, click Authoring.

  2. Select Rules. In the Rules window in the right pane, type Application Partition Instance in the Look for text box, and then click Find Now.

  3. Right-click the Replication Performance Collection Helper (Source) rule, click Overrides, click Override the Rule, and then click For a group.

    Note

    If you do not see the rule, confirm that your scope is set to include Lightweight Directory Service Client Perspective Discovery by clicking Scope in the Operations Console toolbar.

  4. In the Select Object dialog box, click the group of computers that you have created for the purpose of client monitoring, and then click OK.

  5. In the Override Properties dialog box, ensure that the Override box that corresponds to Enabled in the Parameter Name column is selected, and then change Override Value to True.

  6. In Select destination management pack, select the management pack that you created for AD LDS Customizations, as described in Create a New Management Pack for Customizations. If you have not yet created a management pack for your overrides, you can click New to create one now. Click OK.

Replication Performance Collection Helper (Target)

This rule configures the replication partition instance as the target for replication.

To enable the Replication Performance Collection Helper (Target) rule

  1. In the Operations Console, click Authoring.

  2. Select Rules. In the Rules window on the right pane, type Application Partition Instance in the Look for text box, and then click Find Now.

  3. Right-click the Replication Performance Collection Helper (Target) rule, click Overrides, click Override the Rule, and then click For a group.

    Note

    If you do not see the rule, confirm that your scope is set to include Lightweight Directory Service Client Perspective Discovery by clicking Scope in the Operations Console toolbar.

  4. In the Select Object dialog box, click the group of computers that you have created for the purpose of client monitoring, and then click OK.

  5. In the Override Properties dialog box, ensure that the Override box that corresponds to Enabled in the Parameter Name column is selected, and then change Override Value to True.

  6. In Select destination management pack, select the management pack that you created for AD LDS Customizations, as described in Create a New Management Pack for Customizations. If you have not yet created a management pack for your overrides, you can click New to create one now. Click OK.

Replication Monitoring (Latency)

This monitor tracks replication and ensures that changes that are made to the directory are replicated at required intervals within the AD LDS configuration set.

To enable the Replication Monitoring (Latency) rule

  1. In the Operations Console, click Authoring.

  2. Select Rules. In the Rules window on the right pane, type Application Partition Instance in the Look for text box, and then click Find Now.

  3. Right-click the Replication Monitoring (Latency) rule, click Overrides, click Override the Rule, and then click For a group.

    Note

    If you do not see the rule, confirm that your scope is set to include Lightweight Directory Service Client Perspective Discovery by clicking Scope in the Operations Console toolbar.

  4. In the Select Object dialog box, click the group of computers that you have created for the purpose of client monitoring, and then click OK.

  5. In the Override Properties dialog box, ensure that the Override box that corresponds to Enabled in the Parameter Name column is selected, and then change Override Value to True.

  6. In Select destination management pack, select the management pack that you created for AD LDS Customizations, as described in Create a New Management Pack for Customizations. If you have not yet created a management pack for your overrides, you can click New to create one now. Click OK.

Replication Monitoring (Update)

This monitor tracks replication and makes sure replication is occurring at the required intervals on all monitored instances.

To enable the Replication Monitoring (Update) rule

  1. In the Operations Console, click Authoring.

  2. Select Rules. In the Rules window on the right pane, type Application Partition Instance in the Look for text box, and then click Find Now.

  3. Right-click the Replication Monitoring (Update) rule, click Overrides, click Override the Rule, and then click For a group.

    Note

    If you do not see the rule, confirm that your scope is set to include Lightweight Directory Service Client Perspective Discovery by clicking Scope in the Operations Console toolbar.

  4. In the Select Object dialog box, click the group of computers that you created for the purpose of client monitoring, and then click OK.

  5. In the Override Properties dialog box, ensure that the Override box that corresponds to Enabled in the Parameter Name column is selected, and then change Override Value to True.

  6. In Select destination management pack, select the management pack that you created for AD LDS Customizations, as described in Create a New Management Pack for Customizations. If you have not yet created a management pack for your overrides, you can click New to create one now. Click OK.

Replication Change Delay Performance Collection

This rule collects performance data and the amount of time taken to replicate a change that was made on a remote AD LDS instance.

To enable the Replication Change Delay Performance collection rule

  1. In the Operations Console, click Authoring.

  2. Select Rules. In the Rules window on the right pane, type Application Partition Instance in the Look for text box, and then click Find Now.

  3. Right-click the Replication Change Delay Performance collection rule, click Overrides, click Override the Rule, and then click For a group.

    Note

    If you do not see the rule, confirm that your scope is set to include Lightweight Directory Service Client Perspective Discovery by clicking Scope in the Operations Console toolbar.

  4. In the Select Object dialog box, click the group of computers that you created for the purpose of client monitoring, and then click OK.

  5. In the Override Properties dialog box, ensure that the Override box that corresponds to Enabled in the Parameter Name column is selected, and then change Override Value to True.

  6. In Select destination management pack, select the management pack that you created for AD LDS Customizations, as described in Create a New Management Pack for Customizations. If you have not yet created a management pack for your overrides, you can click New to create one now. Click OK.