Additional Aspects of Active Directory Health
No single planning, monitoring, or maintenance product can cover all facets of information technology (IT) management. Active Directory Management Pack (ADMP) provides a strong monitoring complement to other aspects of Active Directory management, such as directory data health, capacity planning, and change and configuration management (CCM). The following sections explain these additional Active Directory management considerations.
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Data Health
Capacity Planning
Change and Configuration Management
Other Resources
Data Health
ADMP is designed to help you maintain the health of your Active Directory directory service. Maintaining the health of directory data presents a different kind of problem — one that varies according to your particular organization, the type of data that you store in Active Directory, and how you go about entering and modifying data in Active Directory. For more information about maintaining Active Directory data, see the Active Directory Operations Overview for Windows 2000 Active Directory on the Microsoft Web site at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=36994.
Capacity Planning
With ADMP, you can collect reporting information that you can use to make capacity planning decisions. However, ADMP by itself does not provide any capacity planning feedback based on the data that it gathers. To put ADMP to work in your capacity planning efforts, use ADMP reporting data along with one of the many published Windows Server 2003 Deployment Kit chapters, product Help topics, and Microsoft Active Directory white papers, including the following:
Planning Domain Controller Capacity on the Microsoft Web site at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=18115.
Server planning for DNS on the Microsoft Web site at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=18116.
Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Branch Office Guide on the Microsoft Web site at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=28523.
Change and Configuration Management
To complement ADMP monitoring, you can use Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003. For more information about SMS 2003, see the SMS home page on the Microsoft Web site at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=299.
Other Resources
To complement this Active Directory Management Pack Technical Reference, you can refer to the following resources for additional information about MOM 2005 and Active Directory monitoring:
Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 online Help
Help and Support Center in Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Operations Manager Downloads on the Microsoft Web site at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=8869
Microsoft Active Directory Management Pack Guide on the Microsoft Web site at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=38341
MOM 2005 Product Documentation on the Microsoft Web site at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=8874