Domain Controller Health Check and Monitoring
Get proactive notifications of service outages or performance issues with your domain controllers
Gain visibility into domain controller health and performance
Replication is an important process for keeping your domain controllers healthy and up to date. Consider monitoring replication to see if there is a failure on a replication link, a domain controller issue, or network issues leading to slow replication rates between sites and apps. Closely watch key metrics, such as checking domain controller status, replication syncs, and updates.
Monitor for user authentication issues
Authentication is a key role where a domain controller facilitates users when they attempt to log in to a domain. Windows does not provide authentication-related performance stats. An automated server and application health monitoring software provides a detailed view of users' accounts and activities. See details of the following areas of your domain controller monitoring for continuous performance:
- User account creation, deletion, and disablement
- Attempts to change or reset passwords
- Changes to the user account, user account lockouts, etc.
Manage directory service files
Monitoring New Technology Directory Services (NTDS) object counter will indicate the number of clients connected to an LDAP session. When end-users are unable to connect to a session using LDAP queries, there could be an issue with the domain controller. You need visibility into domain controller performance monitoring data, such as speed and response times of particular sessions.
View and check domain controller health across the IT layers
Understand relationships and dependencies of the application management stack. With the application stack dashboard, start automatically mapping relationships between the application and its underlying infrastructure, such as database, servers, virtual, and storage layers to identify the root cause of application issues.
Perform domain controller diagnostics and troubleshooting
Easily detecting changes in domain controller diagnostics is critical to effective troubleshooting, which is why SAM is built to help you monitor server running authentication systems. SAM can enable you to check domain controller health through a constant overview of machine functionality, performance loss, and more. With domain controller monitoring and preset alerts, SAM allows you to easily pinpoint problematic activity and then rapidly troubleshoot domain controller diagnostics problems or bottlenecks.
Get More on Checking Domain Controller Health
Do you find yourself asking…
A domain controller is a server designed to respond to security authentication requests within a network and verify users on their devices. When a user logs in to the network, system, or service—for example, Windows Active Directory (AD)—the domain controller is built to instantly authenticate and validate their credentials. This is traditionally in the form of a username, password, or an IP location. Then, the domain controller either denies or allows access depending on the validity of the user and their device.
Domain controllers are made to organize and secure all data necessary to determine and validate users, device names, and group policies. Usually, a domain controller will use a hierarchical organization system to arrange the information found within it, using a tree-like system to group users and protect them in similar ways. This helps keep groups of network elements safe from bad actors.
The domain controller for a given IT system lives on a single piece of hardware dedicated to performing authentication tasks across network machines, devices, and end users. These elements can also be known as clients. Using a single piece of hardware for your domain controller helps simplify the process of validating each individual user, especially in large networks composed of hundreds of client devices.
A domain controller is a server designed to respond to security authentication requests within a network and verify users on their devices. When a user logs in to the network, system, or service—for example, Windows Active Directory (AD)—the domain controller is built to instantly authenticate and validate their credentials. This is traditionally in the form of a username, password, or an IP location. Then, the domain controller either denies or allows access depending on the validity of the user and their device.
Domain controllers are made to organize and secure all data necessary to determine and validate users, device names, and group policies. Usually, a domain controller will use a hierarchical organization system to arrange the information found within it, using a tree-like system to group users and protect them in similar ways. This helps keep groups of network elements safe from bad actors.
The domain controller for a given IT system lives on a single piece of hardware dedicated to performing authentication tasks across network machines, devices, and end users. These elements can also be known as clients. Using a single piece of hardware for your domain controller helps simplify the process of validating each individual user, especially in large networks composed of hundreds of client devices.
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