Operations Master Monitoring
Applies To: Operations Manager 2007, Windows Server 2012
An Active Directory environment will contain a number of operations master role owners. This management pack monitors these roles to ensure that they are available and can be located at all times. Specifically, each operations master role owner can be located and binding can occur within a specified amount of time.
The Active Directory Operation Master Response script monitors Active Directory Operations Masters. Operations masters are domain controllers that hold one or more of the operations master roles (also known as flexible single master operations or FSMO roles) in Active Directory. These roles are critical to Active Directory health and availability. The operations master roles include the following:
Schema operations master
Domain naming operations master
Infrastructure operations master
Relative ID (RID) operations master
Primary domain controller (PDC) emulator operations master
This script runs every five minutes to determine the responsiveness of the operations masters. The response time for each role holder is recorded as performance data.
For each operations master, the Active Directory Operations Master Response script determines the point at which that operations master was last tested successfully. If the number of script runs since the last successful test is greater than or equal to the SuccessCount parameter, the test is performed again (with the exception of the PDC emulator master, which is tested during each script run). An operations master is also tested if the previous test of the same operations master failed or if the operations master has not been tested since the Operations Manager service started.
If the script tests an operations master and the test fails, the script generates an event and increments a counter that is associated with the domain controller being tested. If the counter equals the FailureThreshold parameter, the script generates another event, and it generates a Warning alert indicating that multiple consecutive failures have occurred.
When the script tests an operations master and the test completes successfully, the failure counter for that domain controller is reset to 0, and a success event is generated. The script also generates an Information alert.
Configuration
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 change the threshold for an operations master last bind monitor
Open the Operations console, and click Authoring.
Expand Management Pack Objects, and then click Monitors.
In the Monitors pane, expand Active Directory Domain Controller Server 2000 Computer Role.
Expand Entity Health, and then expand Performance.
Right-click AD DC Op Master <FSMOrole> Last Bind Monitor, where <FSMOrole> is the operations master role that you want to modify.
Click Overrides, click Override the Monitor, select For all objects of class: Active Directory Domain Controller Server 2000 Computer.
Select the Override box that corresponds to Enabled in the Parameter Name column. Ensure that the value in the Override Value column is set to True.
Select the Override that corresponds to Threshold Error (sec) in the Parameter Name column, and then enter the value that you want to use in the Override column.
Select the Override box for Threshold Warning (sec), and then enter the value that you want to configure in the Override Value column.
In Select destination management pack, select the management pack that you created for Active Directory Management Pack (ADMP) 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.
Repeat steps 3 through 10 for the following monitors:
Active Directory Domain Controller Server 2003 Computer Role
Active Directory Domain Controller Server 2008 Computer Role