Enabling Client Perspective Monitoring

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Applies To: Operations Manager 2007

You can use the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) Management Pack to discover computers where client perspective is available. The following monitor makes this possible:

  • Client LDAP Bind Monitor

By default, client perspective monitoring is not enabled in the AD LDS Management Pack. You must manually enable the following for client perspective to work:

  1. Enable Client Perspective discovery

  2. Enable Client Perspective monitor

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 complete 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 discovery

  1. In the Operations Console, click Authoring.

  2. Double-click Management Pack Objects, and then click Object Discoveries.

  3. In the Object Discoveries pane, right-click Lightweight Directory Service Client Perspective Discovery, click Overrides, click Override the Object Discovery, 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.

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, select 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, and then change Override Value to True, and click OK.